Re: Scripting again...

2006-01-17 Thread John Smith
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:37:05 +0100 Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:40:48AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > > "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" > > > Personally, I'd use perl for this kind of thing: > > $ perl -p0e 's/text:\n someothertext/te

Re: Scripting again...

2006-01-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:40:48AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > how do you change (from the command line) with (sed/awk/... > anything that's available in the installation environment) > > "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" > > The trick is in the new