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10-06-2008

csmklee

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any better way to remove line breaks

Hi,

I got some log files which print the whole xml message in separate lines:
e.g.
2008-10-01 14:21:44,561 INFO do something
2008-10-01 14:21:44,561 INFO print xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<a>
<b>my data</b>
</a>
2008-10-01 14:21:44,563 INFO do something again

I want to convert the xml part into one single line, e.g.
2008-10-01 14:21:44,561 INFO do something
2008-10-01 14:21:44,561 INFO print xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><a><b>my data</b></a>
2008-10-01 14:21:44,563 INFO do something again

I once got a script like:
gzip -dc log.gz | sed -n -e ":a" -e "$ s/>\n/>/gp;N;b a"

but it's very slow and run into out of memory

is there any better way to do achieve it?

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