Re: [ILUG] replacing mult. newlines

From: Brian (singer at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Tue 05 Oct 1999 - 18:34:12 IST


Hi.

On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 06:16:58PM +0100, Matthew Sammon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a quick question:
>
> How do I replace newlines with something else in multiple
> files, preferably using awk or sed?
>
> I need to replace:
> FOO
> : BAR

singer at domain mother $ cat >asdasdasdasd
one line
two line
three line
4
^D
singer at domain mother $ cat asdasdasdasd | tr '\n' ' '
one line two line three line 4 singer at domain mother $

tr is your friend :)

Brian.



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