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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing line breaks inside a field Post 303001309 by RudiC on Tuesday 1st of August 2017 01:10:09 PM
Old 08-01-2017
Please become accustomed to provide decent context info of your problem.
It is always helpful to support a request with system info like OS and shell, related environment (variables, options), preferred tools, adequate (representative) sample input and desired output data and the logics connecting the two, and, if existent, system (error) messages verbatim, to avoid ambiguities and keep people from guessing.

This is one of the prevalent problems in these fora - did you try searching for solutions? One approach would be to read / append lines until the field count is correct.
 

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FILE2SDR(1)							  ICI executables						       FILE2SDR(1)

NAME
file2sdr - SDR data ingestion test program SYNOPSIS
file2sdr configFlags fileName DESCRIPTION
file2sdr stress-tests SDR data ingestion by repeatedly writing all text lines of the file named fileName to one of a series of non-volatile linked lists created in a test SDR data store named "testsdrconfigFlags". By incorporating the data store configuration into the name (e.g., "testsdr14") we make it relatively easy to perform comparative testing on SDR data stores that are identical aside from their configuration settings. The operation of file2sdr is cyclical: a new linked list is created each time the program finishes copying the file's text lines and starts over again. If you use ^C to terminate file2sdr and then restart it, the program resumes operation at the point where it left off. After writing each line to the current linked list, file2sdr gives a semaphore to indicate that the list is now non-empty. This is mainly for the benefit of the complementary test program sdr2file(1). At the end of each cycle file2sdr appends a final EOF line to the current linked list, containing the text "*** End of the file ***", and prints a brief performance report: Processing I<lineCount> lines per second. EXIT STATUS
0 file2sdr has terminated. FILES
No configuration files are needed. ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables apply. DIAGNOSTICS
Diagnostic messages produced by file2sdr are written to the ION log file ion.log. Can't use sdr. ION system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun. Can't create semaphore. ION system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun. SDR transaction failed. ION system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun. Can't open input file Operating system error. Check errtext, correct problem, and rerun. Can't reopen input file Operating system error. Check errtext, correct problem, and rerun. Can't read from input file Operating system error. Check errtext, correct problem, and rerun. BUGS
Report bugs to <ion-bugs@korgano.eecs.ohiou.edu> SEE ALSO
sdr2file(1), sdr(3) perl v5.14.2 2012-05-25 FILE2SDR(1)
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