Are you able to install csvtool or csvkit? I know the former is able to work with multiline cells in a csv file; I don't know about the latter.
csvtool has a "call command" option allowing it to call a shellscript or shell function to modify the file one line at a time.
I think for the example you gave:
This is untested and you will have to try it out.
csvtool has the ablilty to cut and paste columns just like the cut and paste tools, so it might be easier to pull out the problem column, fix it as above. and paste it back into the original file.
I think you need version 4 of bash to get the $'' functionality, or look at using tr: tr '\r' ' '
Hi,
Can anyone know how to use perl to merge the following multi-line information which beginning with "BAM" into one line. For each line need to delete the return and add a space. Please see the red color line.
******Org. Multi-line)
BAM admin 101.203.57.22 ... (3 Replies)
Hello,
Did anyone know how to write a perl script to merge the multi-line into a single line where each line with start at timestamp
Input-->
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
a;
b;
c;
timestamp=2009-11-10-04.55.20.829347;
aa;
bb;
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This is related to one of my previous post but now with a slight difference: I need the "Updated:" to be in one line as well as the "Information:" on one line as well. These are in multiple lines right now as seen below. These can have 2 or more lines that needs to be in one line.
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Now that I've parsed out the data that I desire I'm left with variable length multi-line records that are field seperated by new lines (\n) and record seperated by a single empty line ("")
At first I was considering doing something like this to append all of the record rows into a single row:
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Hello
I did do a search and the past threads doesn't really solve my issue. (using various awk commands)
I need to combine the output from java -version into 1 line, but I am having difficulties.
When you exec java -version, you get:
java version "1.5.0_06"
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HI,
My input file contains the data as like below:
A1234119993
B6271113
Bghjkjk
A1234119992
B6271113hi
Bghjkjkmkl
the output i require is :
A1234119993 B6271113 Bghjkjk
A1234119992 B6271113hi Bghjkjkmkl
Please help me in this.
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My Oracle query is returing below o/p
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Ins trnas value
a lkp1 x
a lkp1 y
b lkp1 a
b lkp2 x
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I am trying to remove multi line and single line comments like examples below
I have tried this pattern. it works fine for single line comments and multi line comments in a single line only. but this fails when the comments are extended in multiple lines as shown in the comment 2 of... (3 Replies)
I want to read the log file which was generate from other command . And the output was having multi line in log files for job name and server name. But i need to make all the logs on one line
Source file
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psc
PSC(1) General Commands Manual PSC(1)NAME
psc - prepare sc files
SYNOPSIS
psc [-fLkrSPv] [-s cell] [-R n] [-C n] [-n n] [-d c]
DESCRIPTION
Psc is used to prepare data for input to the spreadsheet calculator sc(1). It accepts normal ascii data on standard input. Standard out-
put is a sc file. With no options, psc starts the spreadsheet in cell A0. Strings are right justified. All data on a line is entered on
the same row; new input lines cause the output row number to increment by one. The default delimiters are tab and space. The column for-
mats are set to one larger than the number of columns required to hold the largest value in the column.
OPTIONS -f Omit column width calculations. This option is for preparing data to be merged with an existing spreadsheet. If the option is not
specified, the column widths calculated for the data read by psc will override those already set in the existing spreadsheet.
-L Left justify strings.
-k Keep all delimiters. This option causes the output cell to change on each new delimiter encountered in the input stream. The
default action is to condense multiple delimiters to one, so that the cell only changes once per input data item.
-r Output the data by row first then column. For input consisting of a single column, this option will result in output of one row
with multiple columns instead of a single column spreadsheet.
-s cell
Start the top left corner of the spreadsheet in cell. For example, -s B33 will arrange the output data so that the spreadsheet
starts in column B, row 33.
-R n Increment by n on each new output row.
-C n Increment by n on each new output column.
-n n Output n rows before advancing to the next column. This option is used when the input is arranged in a single column and the
spreadsheet is to have multiple columns, each of which is to be length n.
-d c Use the single character c as the delimiter between input fields.
-P Plain numbers only. A field is a number only when there is no imbedded [-+eE].
-S All numbers are strings.
-v Print the version of psc
SEE ALSO sc(1)AUTHOR
Robert Bond
PSC 7.16 19 September 2002 PSC(1)