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Operating Systems HP-UX How to remove new line character and append new line character in a file? Post 302466487 by sasikari on Tuesday 26th of October 2010 01:14:30 PM
Old 10-26-2010
How to remove new line character and append new line character in a file?
Hi Experts,

I have data coming in 4 columns and there are new line characters \n in between the data. I need to remove the new line characters in the middle of the row and keep the \n character at the end of the line.

File is comma (,) seperated.

Eg:
Code:
ID,Client ,SNo,Rank
37,Airtel \n Private \n limited,100,999\n
38,Vodaphone India \n Private Limited,200,888\n
39,Dell Limited,300,777\n
40,HP India Ltd\n,400,666\n

Delete red colour new line characters

Output should be :
Code:
ID,Client ,SNo,Rank
37,Airtel Private  limited,100,999\n
38,Vodaphone India Private Limited,200,888\n
39,Dell Limited,300,777\n
40,HP India Ltd,400,666\n

Here my requirement is , don't delete the \n when it comes after every 3rd comma and delete new line character (\n) in between.

Pl provide the solution to achive this.

Regards
Kari
Last edited by radoulov; 10-26-2010 at 02:48 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please!
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mencal

mencal(1)								 1								 mencal(1)

NAME

       mencal - menstruation calendar

SYNOPSIS

       mencal [options] [file1 file2 ... -c CONF1 -c CONF2 ...]

DESCRIPTION

   Display options:
       -m, --monday
	      draw monday as first weekday (sunday is default)

       -1     current month (default)

       -3     previous, current and next month

       -y [YYYY]
	      all-year calendar (default YYYY is current year)

       -q, --quiet
	      no top information will be printed

       -n, --nocolor
	      noncolored output

       -i, --icolor COLOR
	      intersection color (default red)

	      available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold

   mencal configuration:
       -c, --config
	      s=[YYYY]MMDD,l=LL,d=DD,n=NAME,f=FILE,c=COLOR

	      The  second argument is a comma separated list of options. No spaces are allowed in this list. If no name is specified, 'Unknown' is
	      used.  Various -c options or filenames can be set.

       s,start=[YYYY]MMDD
	      start day of period (default current day)

       l,length=LL
	      length of period in days (default 28)

       d,duration=D
	      duration of menstruation in days (default 4)

       n,name=NAME
	      name of subject

       f,file=FILE
	      filename to save configuration to (see section FILES)

	      only menstruation related variables will be saved

       c,color=COLOR
	      color used for menstruation days

	      available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold default color is red, with	'-n'  switch  color  settings  are
	      ignored

   Info options:
       -h, --help
	      print help

       -V, --version
	      print version information

FILES
:
       $HOME/.mencalrc - the default configuration file that is automatically loaded

AUTHOR
:
       (C) 2002 C. McCohy
       e-mail: <mccohy@kyberdigi.cz>
       Word-Wide-Web: http://www.kyberdigi.cz/projects/mencal/english

       This  manual  page  was	written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page (but may be
       used by others).

HISTORY

       22 March 2002 - Originally written by Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org>.
       24 Apr 2002 - New manpage contributed by Pablo S. Torralba <psanchez@skyrealms.org>.
       Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org> is now responsible for developing and maintaining this manual page. Comments and suggestions  are  greatly
       wellcome.

mencal							       Menstruation calendar							 mencal(1)
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