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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing line breaks inside a field Post 303001310 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 1st of August 2017 01:26:08 PM
Old 08-01-2017
Hi Bobby_2000,
Expanding a little bit on what RudiC has already said...

How big are the files you're trying to process?

What operating system are you using?

What output do you get from the following command?
Code:
getconf LINE_MAX

(Note that sed is only specified to work on text files and you are turning your input files into a single, partial line to be processed by sed. By definition, a text file can't have any lines with more bytes than the number printed by the above command and each line has to have a <newline> character line terminator. Some versions of sed will let you get by with some input files that have long lines, missing line terminators, or both; others won't.)

Please show us some sample input that produces output that doesn't match what you want (in CODE tags), show us the output you get with the pipeline you showed us in post #1 (in CODE tags) with that sample input, and show us the output you want (also in CODE tags) from that sample input.

And, please show us any diagnostics produced by your pipeline exactly as they are printed (also in CODE tags) if there are any.
 

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