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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting pattern matching lines using the date, and then joining the lines Post 302400057 by vivekraj on Tuesday 2nd of March 2010 06:08:50 AM
Old 03-02-2010
If -i and -r options aren't working.Then,you simply escape the curly braces in my command as follows.This will work.

Code:
sed '/^$/d;/^[ \t]\{1,\}$/d;s/^[ \t]\{1,\}\(.*\)/\1/g;s/[ ]\{2,\}/ /g;s/[\t]\{1,\}/ /g;' <inputfilename>

If -r option works,there is no need to escape the curly braces.

Last edited by vivekraj; 03-02-2010 at 07:17 AM..
 

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