Text Manipulation/Replacement
Ubence Quevedo
r0d3nt at pacbell.net
Mon Sep 22 22:57:32 UTC 2008
----- Original Message ----
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:03:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Text Manipulation/Replacement
>
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:57 -0700, Ubence Quevedo wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I've used pdftotext to convert a pdf document to text and then used a
> combination of grep and awk to single out data and replace formatting that I
> didn't need.
> >
> > The output data eventually looks like this:
> > 12,123456789
> > ,0987654321
> >
> > But I want it to look like this:
> > 12,123456789,0987654321
> >
> > I've tried many different things with awk, but I can't get it replace \r, with
> just a ,
>
> For one thing, end-of-line in standard Unix text files is not \r
> (Carriage Return), it's \n (Newline).
>
> poc
>
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Thanks for splitting hairs. :^) \r is what first came to mind.
I've got a lead from another list that I posted on how to use perl to accomplish what I need, but it isn't specific enough to not replace all new lines with empty space: cat foo.txt | perl -pi -e 's/\n//g'
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanx!
-Ubence
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