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Old 12-10-2008
substitute \n by space

I'm writing a bash script that is supposed to turn a particular xml into xhtml. I'm using pipelines in between regular expressions (sed).

The only thing I'm having problems with is defining a newline in sed.

So getting everything on 1 line would help;
an expression for \n to be able to rearrange field / \(...\) \(...\)/ \2 \1/ would be ideal.

I'm only a beginner & I couldn't find a solution searching the forum.
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Old 12-10-2008
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Originally Posted by GDVS
I'm writing a bash script that is supposed to turn a particular xml into xhtml. I'm using pipelines in between regular expressions (sed).

The only thing I'm having problems with is defining a newline in sed.

So getting everything on 1 line would help;
an expression for \n to be able to rearrange field / \(...\) \(...\)/ \2 \1/ would be ideal.

To remove all newlines from a file, use tr:

Code:
tr -d '\n' < FILE

(Remember to add a final newline.)
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Old 12-11-2008
thanks very much!!!
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