a very basic sed one-liner...that isn't working :-(
Greetings all.
I would like to use sed to join all non-blank lines together in a particular file. I was thinking I could do this by simply replacing the terminating, new-line character on every line which is not blank, but I must be missing something in my sed line:
The solution here needs to leave blank lines untouched as the file is setup so blank lines mark the beginning of a new block of related lines, like so:
Essentially, each original line in a block will end-up as a tab-delimited field on a single line of output; Something like this:
Please correct my misguided ways and also let me know if you have a more eligant solution to this problem.
Thanks!
--Steve
(Linux newbie...in case you couldn't tell)
p.s.
For anyone out there reading this on a small monitor, I'm sorry if my lines of example output are excessively long.
I thought about using shorter (...and more boring) lines of input, but in the end, thought it might be more interesting and instructive if I included the real-world data with which I'm working.
If I made the wrong call here, let me know and I'll refrain from including long lines in my future posts.
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