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;
cc; (5 Replies)
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:
... (4 Replies)
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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Hi,
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
b lkp2 y ... (7 Replies)
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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
07/15/2018 17:02:00 TRANSLOG_1700 Server0005_SQL ... (2 Replies)
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paste
paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Alsocut(1), grep(1), pr(1)paste(1)