can anyone explain this?

djkane · #1 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006

:start
/@~/{
h
s/$.*$@~.*$/\1/
s/@~$//
s/@~/\
/g
p
g
s/.*@~$.*$/\1/
}
/[^@][^~]/{
N
s/\n/ /
b start
}

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006

It's a sed script. What are you trying to do?

djkane · #3 (**permalink**) 02-28-2006

trying to remove newline characters from the middle of a data field but leave the newline character at the end of the row returned.

does that make sense??

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