#!/bin/bash
# Assume there IS a newline at the end also...
printf "abc\ndef\nghi\n" > /tmp/sometext
ls -l /tmp/sometext
# Important line, note backticks...
somestring=`cat /tmp/sometext`
# Voila trailing newline eliminated...
printf "$somestring" > /tmp/sometext
ls -l /tmp/sometext
# Now try your code, as I haven't... ;o)
@yoda, that would be problematic if there is any kind of whitespace other than the newlines. Even if you set FS to a newline, the RS= would compress multiple newlines and create multiple records.
As a work-around one could choose a character that will not occur in the text for example:
Code:
awk '{$1=$1}1' FS='\n' RS=§ OFS="|"
Note that there would need to be curly braces around $1=$1 otherwise it would not print in case of 0 or whitespace in $1
But this would leave a trailing pipe symbol after the last record, so that still would not work as desired...
Also there might be record length limitations..
The code doesn't work as intended.
Code:
awk '{$1=$1}1' FS='\n' RS=^ OFS="|" aa
output:
Quote:
abc
def
ghi
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