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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk to remove carriage return from 65th field Post 302610657 by Corona688 on Wednesday 21st of March 2012 02:18:17 PM
Old 03-21-2012
\n is a newline, not a carriage return. Which do you mean?

If you mean an extra newline is breaking the line early, awk doesn't know the difference between the 'right' newlines and the 'wrong' ones, they're all just bytes; and it won't be able to delete a newline it hasn't read yet.

But you can count the number of fields to see if it broke early and save the partial record for next time.

Code:
awk -F"|" 'NF==65 { T=$0; next}; T { print T $0; T=""; next} 1

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

nl

nl(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					      nl(3XCURSES)

NAME

       nl, nonl - enable/disable newline control

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include  -L	/usr/xpg4/lib 
	-R  /usr/xpg4/lib  -lcurses  [ library... ]

       c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]

       #include <curses.h>

       int nl(void);

       int nonl(void);

DESCRIPTION

       The  nl()  function enables the handling of newlines.  The nl() function converts newline into carriage return and line feed  on output and
       converts carriage return into newline on input.	nonl() disables the handling of newlines.

       The handling of newlines is initially enabled.  Disabling the handling of newlines results in faster cursor motion since  X/Open Curses can
       use the line-feed capability more efficiently.

RETURN VALUES

       On success, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.

ERRORS

       None.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    5 Jun 2002							      nl(3XCURSES)
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