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Since it's your input file that's messed up, why not just edit it and correct it? I think cat -evt will show you a little more info on what is actually in the file.
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I did fix it in vi .....thats not a problem ......but to automate it how do i work on it........plz suggest me .......
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Try this:

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perl -i.bak -0777 -ple's/(".*?)[\r\n]*(.*?")/$1$2/g' file
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Hi rad,

I just copied ur command and pasted on the prompt.infact i used this
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It's correct The above command modified your original file (backed up in input.csv.bak). You don't need to redirect ...
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