or simply
perl -pi.bak -e 'chomp' somefile more*files
but I don' tthink this solves his problem. He appears to wanbt to identify
two specific lines seperated by a newline
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Ken Irving wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 06:04:14AM -0600, SoloCDM wrote:
> > I successfully used "cat <file> | tr -d '\n'" 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.
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but Perl's chomp() function
> seems to do a good job of removing various line-ending encodings. This
> one-liner translates from foriegn to native newlines:
>
> $ perl -i.bak -ne 'chomp; print"$_\n"' somefile more*files
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