Re: Simple join of 2 lines!!! Arrgh!

From: Carlos J. G. Duarte (cjgd_at_clix.pt)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:53:18 +0000

Shaun wrote:

> so I thought I'd just replace EOLXXXX (+newline) with nothing, i.e. delete it thus:
>
> tr -d 'EOLXXXX\012' <file1 >file2
>
> but for some reason this removes all newline characters?

tr -d 'character set' will remove these characteres from input.
This is best done with sed:
$ sed 's/EOLXXX.*$//; N; s/\n/ /' 

-- 
carlos ** http://cgd.sdf-eu.org

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