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# 1  
Old 02-04-2008
SED question
Hello there,

I've seen quite a few post on SED to handle newline, but I tried few things doesn't seem to work.

I was able to replace any tex tto newline, however viceversa (new line on Solaris returns error message as 'SED garbled"..

Code:
sed 's/\
/#/g' f2

My source data looks like below which has 3 lines, all the line starts with "PROD~".

Code:
PROD~N_PROD~kf_XXX_IHIRS_TK_REP~kf_XXX_IHIRS_TK_REP~TL:- changend decimalseparator from '.' to ','
- expanded the source-sql to all the iHIRS-Indices.~UPD
PROD~N_PROD~X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~TL:
- remove the sort-option from the source-sql and inserted a sort-transaction into the mapping~UPD
PROD~N_PROD~kf_X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~kf_X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~TL:- changend the source-sql because of 
performance issues~UPD

Ideally my regular expression should do the following.

Step 1 : convert \n to # or something else, so that I have one line as below

Quote:
PROD~N_PROD~kf_XXX_IHIRS_TK_REP~kf_XXX_IHIRS_TK_REP~TL:- changend decimalseparator from '.' to ','#- expanded the source-sql to all the iHIRS-indices.~UPD#PROD~N_PROD~X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~TL:#- remove the sort-option from the source-sql and inserted a sort-transaction into the mapping~UPD#PROD~N_PROD~kf_X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~kf_X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~TL:- changend the source-sql because of #performance issues~UPD

Step 2: convert #PROD~ to #PROD~\n, so the output is as below

Code:
PROD~N_PROD~kf_XXX_IHIRS_TK_REP~kf_XXX_IHIRS_TK_REP~TL:- changend decimalseparator from '.' to ','#- expanded the source-sql to all the iHIRS-Indices.~UPD
PROD~N_PROD~X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~TL:#- remove the sort-option from the source-sql and inserted a sort-transaction into the mapping~UPD
PROD~N_PROD~kf_X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~kf_X_GEN_PX_TKD_REP~TL:- changend the source-sql because of #performance issues~UPD

since I'm unable to convert the newline(\n) to something, I couldn't really move forward. I appreciate any pointers.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 02-04-2008
The following should do what you want.

Code:
sed -n -e 'N;s/\n/#/;P;D;' sourcefile

# 3  
Old 02-04-2008
Thanks a ton !!

May Í know the reason why 'D' is used in the command?
# 4  
Old 02-04-2008
ah, it's an RTFM(Read The Manual First) problem Smilie

Using D the lines already read being deleted from the buffer. Thanks anyway

Since 'N' is going to append only the next line,so if a line spans for more than 2 rows, will the result be similar ?
# 5  
Old 02-05-2008
Hi fmurphy,

If a record spans to more than 2 lines then above isn't working. output is kind of garbled.I've managed to handle in my application. However, I'm curious to know if it's also feasible with sed/shell

Thanks
Last edited by brainyoung; 02-05-2008 at 06:30 AM..
# 6  
Old 02-05-2008
If awk is allowed:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{ORS=""} NR>1{gsub(/PROD~N/,"\nPROD~N")}{print} END{printf("\n")}' file

Regards
# 7  
Old 02-06-2008
Thanks for the idea Franklin !!, I shall enhance this to suite my requirment
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