Your sed needs to substitute all \n where the preceding characters is not a ;
The file must fit into memory.
The following does an early replacement; only the output line must fit into memory
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Hello All,
I have log file the result from a multithreaded process. So when a process finishes it will write to this log file as 123 rows merged.
The issue is sometimes the processess finish at the same time or write to the file at the same time as
123 rows merged.145 rows merged.
At... (5 Replies)
If we assume that each line between the {} container is an XML document then What I want to remove the newline character from all lines within each container to have one XMDL document per line I wrote a bit of sed after trawling the web:
e.g.
#!/bin/sed -nf
H
/}/ {
x
s/\n//g
p... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following XML not well-indented code:
<hallo
>this is a line
</hallo>
So I need to remove the newline.
This syntax finds what I need to correct, but I don't know how to remove the newline after my pattern:
sed 's/<.*$/&/'
How can I subtract the newline after my... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a fixed width file with record length 10.
I need to remove multiple newline characters present in each record.
EX:
af\n72/7\n
s\n3\nad\n
2\n\n33r\n
In the above file I want to remove new lines in red color(\n) but not (\n)
Please provide me a solution.
Thanks,
Sri (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have input file contains sql queries i need to eliminate newlines from it.
when i open it vi text editor and runs
:%s/'\n/'/g
it provides required result. but when i run sed command from shell prompt it doesn't impact outfile is still same as inputfile.
shell] sed -e... (6 Replies)
I have a file (test.dat) which contains data like this
459|199811047|a |b |shan
kar|ooty|
460|199811047|a |bv |gur
u|cbe|
but I need it like:
459|199811047|a |b |shankar|ooty|
460|199811047|a |b |guru|cbe|
While reading the data from this file, I don't want to remove newline from the end of... (4 Replies)
awk , sed Experts,
I want to remove first and last line after pattern match "vg" :
I am trying : # sed '1d;$d' works fine , but where the last line is not having vg entry it is deleting one line of data.
- So it should check for the pattern vg if present , then it should delete the line ,... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I've been trying to work out how to add a new line to a file when the pattern matches .dmg.
I've been searching Google but yet not found a working solution.
Help would be appreciated... (9 Replies)
For a given string that may contain any ASCII chars, i.e. that matches .*,
find and print only the chars that are in a given subset.
The string could also have numbers, uppercase, special chars such as ~!@#$%^&*(){}\", whatever a user could type in
without going esoteric
For simplicity take... (1 Reply)