Ubence Quevedo wrote:
On Sep 22, 2008, at 04:34 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
Ubence Quevedo wrote:
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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).
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
Hi Rick,
I'll have to play with this some more, but this appears to have done the
trick!
Thank you so much!
You're welcome. There's actually a good page of "sed one-liners"
(helpful one-line sed scripts) at:
http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
Turns out the one I gave you is on that list as "# join pairs of lines
side-by-side (like "paste")", but that one strips the last "\n" and
tacks on a space, which mine doesn't.
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