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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers delete newline character between html tags Post 302170703 by girish312 on Tuesday 26th of February 2008 01:28:22 PM
Old 02-26-2008
delete newline character between html tags
Hi,
I have learned some of the Unix commands a way back and not sure of how to code them when needed in certain way, especially sed command. Here is my situation. I have an xml file with several tags. most of the tags start on the same line and end on the same line. However, data for some tags span into mulitple lines. I would like to bring back that particular tag into one line removing all new lines between them.

Here is an example:
<Report>
<Project>
<Proj_Name>ABC Enhancement</Proj_Name>
<Proj_Type>Mechanical</Proj_Type>
<Proj_Description>Project started on 01/03/2006.
However, it is running behind due to unavailable
Resources</Proj_Description>
<Proj_Hours>123.00</Proj_Hours.
</Project>
<Report>

The above is a sample data. I am looking to remove new line characters only from the lines that spans into multiple lines. Herea is how it should appear after removing new lines.

<Report>
<Project>
<Proj_Name>ABC Enhancement</Proj_Name>
<Proj_Type>Mechanical</Proj_Type>
<Proj_Description>Project started on so and so date.... </Proj_Description>
<Proj_Hours>123.00</Proj_Hours.
</Project>
<Report>

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rao
 

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exfalso

exfalso(1)						      General Commands Manual							exfalso(1)

NAME

       exfalso - audio tag editor

SYNOPSIS

       exfalso [ directory ]

DESCRIPTION

       Ex Falso displays and edits audio metadata tags. Supported formats include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, and MOD/XM/IT.

       This  manual  page  is  only  a	short  reference  for  Ex  Falso.  Complete documentation is available at http://code.google.com/p/quodli-
       bet/wiki/Guide.

OPTIONS

       Ex Falso may be given a directory to open on the command line.

TIED TAGS

       Many places in Ex Falso allow you to use "tied tags". Tied tags are two tag names joined  together  with  a  "~"  like  "title~version"	or
       "album~part".   Tied  tags  result  in  "nice"  displays  even when one of the tags is missing; for example, "title~version" will result in
       Title - Version when a version tag is present, but only Title when one isn't. You can tie any number of tags together.

RENAMING FILES

       Ex Falso allows you to rename files based on their tags. In some cases you may wish to alter the filename depending on  whether	some  tags
       are present or missing, in addition to their values. A common pattern might be
	   <tracknumber>. <title~version>
       You can use a '|' to only text when a tag is present:
	   <tracknumber|<tracknumber>. ><title~version>
       You can also specify literal text to use if the tag is missing by adding another '|':
	   <album|<album>|No Album> - <title>
       See http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide_Renaming.

BUGS

       See http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/issues/list for a list of all currently open bugs and feature requests.

AUTHORS

       Joe Wreschnig and Michael Urman are the primary authors of Ex Falso.

SEE ALSO

       http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/Guide,
       http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/FAQ

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