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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting carriage returns within quotation marks causing new lines in csv Post 302695345 by Don Cragun on Sunday 2nd of September 2012 11:18:57 PM
Old 09-03-2012
Try:
Code:
awk '/^["]/{if(out != "") print out;out = $0;next}
        {out = out $0}
END     {if(out != "") print out}' input

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