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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove \n <newline> character inside the records. Post 302594776 by machomaddy on Wednesday 1st of February 2012 06:31:00 AM
Old 02-01-2012
Remove \n <newline> character inside the records.

Hi,
In my file, I have '\n' characters inside a single record. Because of this, a single records appears in many lines and looks like multiple records. In the below file.

Code:
File 1
====
1,nmae,lctn,da\n
t
2,ghjik,o\n
ut,de\n
fk
 
Expected output after the \n removed
 
File 2
=====
1,nmae,lctn,dat
2,ghjik,out,defk

I tried
Code:
 perl -e 'while (<>) { if (! /\,$/ ) { chomp; } print ;}'

But this will work only if the record ends with the delimiter. Dose, someone have any suggestion on this.
 

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