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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Joining lines in a file - help! Post 302644623 by Storms on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 08:05:47 AM
Old 05-22-2012
Joining lines in a file - help!

I'm looking for a way to join lines in a file; e.,g consider the following
Code:
R|This is line 1
R|This is 
line 2
R|This is line 3
R|This is line 4
R|This is 
line 5

what i want to end up with is
Code:
R|This is line 1
R|This is line 2
R|This is line 3
R|This is line 4
R|This is line 5

so the 'real' lines start with R but there may be a line break in some of the lines therefore wanna get rid of the line break if the next line doesn't start with R|

make sense??
thanks in advance

PS been trying with sed and awk... but it's not very intuitive

Last edited by Franklin52; 05-22-2012 at 09:23 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
 

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curs_scroll(3CURSES)					     Curses Library Functions					      curs_scroll(3CURSES)

NAME
curs_scroll, scroll, scrl, wscrl - scroll a curses window SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lcurses [ library ... ] #include <curses.h> int scroll(WINDOW *win); int scrl(int n); int wscrl(WINDOW *win, int n); DESCRIPTION
With the scroll() routine, the window is scrolled up one line. This involves moving the lines in the window data structure. As an optimiza- tion, if the scrolling region of the window is the entire screen, the physical screen is scrolled at the same time. With the scrl() and wscrl() routines, for positive n scroll the window up n lines (line i+n becomes i); otherwise scroll the window down n lines. This involves moving the lines in the window character image structure. The current cursor position is not changed. For these functions to work, scrolling must be enabled via scrollok(). RETURN VALUES
All routines return the integer ERR upon failure and an integer value other than ERR upon successful completion. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
curs_outopts(3CURSES), curses(3CURSES), attributes(5) NOTES
The header <curses.h> automatically includes the headers <stdio.h> and <unctrl.h>. Note that scrl() and scroll() may be macros. SunOS 5.11 31 Dec 1996 curs_scroll(3CURSES)
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