Originally Posted by Scrutinizer

TrY:

Code:

sed -e :a -e '/|$/{$!N;s/\n//;};ta' file

With GNU sed you could also try

Code:

sed ':a;/|$/{$!N;s/\n//;};ta' file

The difference is that this works on a line-by-line basis, whereas the last example in post #1 first reads the entire file before it attempts to globally substitute...


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Any POSIX compliant sed understands \n in the regex part of the s-function if it is not used within a square bracket expression.