"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
SoloCDM wrote,
| I successfully used "cat <file> | tr -d '\n'"
UUCA! UUCA!
What is UUCA?
That should have been
tr -d '\n/' < file
but to continue,
| on a file that "sed 's/\n//g' <file>" failed to properly recognize. I need
| sed to effectively recognize newlines or ask that someone provide a perl
| script that will.
|
| Other types used: \d015 (d: decimal), \r, \<newline>, \$, $, .*, *. I
| even used an ampersand before each one and I updated sed.
As I have explained before, sed reads one line of the input at a time, and
it will never find \n in the pattern space unless you've used a command that
puts another line into the pattern space without removing the one that is
there already, such as N or G.
| Is someone willing to create a perl file for me with the following
| script conditions?
|
| In a message processed with a .procmailrc recipe, I search for two
| lines by devising separate character strings (e.g. xxxxxxx, xxxxxx)
| with wild cards (e.g. ., *) amongst the character strings and a return
| in the middle that connects the two character strings, then remove the
| intended lines with the return found in the message.
|
| If any of you are willing, I need to have it written for processing a
| message in a recipe *and* processing a file and string.
One can do it in sed. From a shell prompt,
sed ':a
N
s/regexp1\nregexp2//
ta
P
$ !D'
Inside a .procmailrc:
:0Bbwf
* regexp1^regexp2
| sed -e :a -eN -e 's/regexp1\nregexp2//' -eta -eP -e '$ !D'
That's much like what a friend of mine put together to remove "\n"
along with text:
#!/usr/bin/sed -f
/top/{
N
s/top\( \|\n\)bottom/top\1bottom/
P
D
}
I transformed it to:
sed '/top/{N;s/top\( \|\n\)bottom>//;P;D;}'
The "\( \|\n\)" is not necessary. You can use just "\n", because the
space before "\|" is just what it is . . . a space. Beyond that, the
lengthy syntax makes it more efficient. But much of this you already
know. :-))))))))))
Thanks for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Signed,
SoloCDM
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