Text Manipulation/Replacement

[Ubence Quevedo]

On Sep 22, 2008, at 04:34 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Ubence Quevedo wrote:
>> ----- 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?
>
> Uh, how about:
>
> 	cat file.txt | sed '$!N;s/\n//' >newfile.txt
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Hi Rick,

I'll have to play with this some more, but this appears to have done  
the trick!

Thank you so much!

-Ubence