Re: Text Manipulation/Replacement

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----- Original Message ----

> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> 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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