On Wednesday 29 August 2007 15:48:50 Victor Munoz wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > I am having trouble using sed to edit text files, heres a good example of > > what I am looking for: > > > > <begin 1.txt> > > This is a test > > file, what I am > > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > > > It isn't a complicated thing, > > but I also want to keep the paragraphs > > separate. > > </end 1.txt> > > > > I try this command: > > > > sed s/\n// / 1.txt > 2.txt and I get an error, so: > > sed s'\n/ /' 1.txt > 2.txt and nothing happens. > > > > I don't get it. I though \n was end of line, which I am trying to > > replace with spaces. > > sed works line by line, separately. There's an N modifier to make it > work across lines. You may check > http://www.panix.com/~elflord/unix/sed.html for a nice tutorial, or > http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/sed.html for some examples. >
Thanks victor, upon further testing, perhaps sed isn't what I should be using in the first place. tr seems to be a better candidate, yet I cannot get this working either. It seems like such a simple thing to do, perhaps I need to write a program that will do it, but I thought surely there'd be a simple (or maybe not so simple) command line that would just do it. I don't care if it's sed, or tr, awk, perl, python, whatever... as long as I get the stupid hard returns out. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
