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remove new line characters from a partcular column data
Dear friends,
I have a pipe delimited file having 5 columns. However the column no-3 is having extra new line characters as the data owing to owing , I am having issues. Ideally my file should have only newline termination at the end of each record and not within column data of any of columns [1-4]. this is my requirement Can you pls advice if we can resolve this via AWK/other commands Awaiting reply Many thx in advance Regards, Suresh |
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If your file has a format like this: Code:
1|2|3 |4|5 11|12|13 |14|15 21|22|23|24|25 This should work: Code:
awk -F"|" 'NF<5{printf("%s",$0);getline;print;next}1' file
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