Re: How to find certain newlines and delete them in ksh.

From: Charles Demas (demas_at_TheWorld.com)
Date: 10/02/03 

Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 22:56:55 +0000 (UTC)

In article <dd6bca79.0310011443.14c58cd3@posting.google.com>,
Terry Carpenter <groupuser@comcast.net> wrote:
>Hello!,
> I have a text file where I need to delete all '\n' that are not
>immediately preceded by a '|' (pipe) character. I have tried "tr
>'\012' '' < FILE" but this removes all the '\n'.

awk '/[|]$/ {print; next}{printf("%s",$0)}' infile

Chuck Demas 

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