Shell Programming and Scripting

My pipe delimited file is coming over with spurious “\” characters
inserted into some alpha fields,
which is causing the records to be split into 2.

Eg Abc|def|10/11\
AAAA|xyz
Lmn|opq|10/11BBBB|xyz
etc etc
I am having to go into vi, then enter / \ to locate each occurrence,
enter x to delete the character,
then enter shift and J to join the two into one.

I have been advised that I can use a “sed” type file to automate this,
but do not know how, nor the syntax to be used

Can anybody help ?

hello malts write the output ,how you want to see the input text
regards,
sanjay

Something like this?

Code:

sed '/\\$/N;s/\\\n/|/' file

thanks sanjay and franklin52 : the syntax from franklin52 works great. I thought I would try to write a script to prompt the user to enter both the input & output filenames at run time, and came up with :

Code:

echo 'Enter input file : \c'
read f1
echo 'Enter output file: \c'
read f2
sh sedfile < [f1] > [f2]

where sedfile is a file containing the syntax provided yesterday.
But the above doesn't recognise [f1].

Any further advice on how to handle this would be most grateful.

Code:

sedfile < $f1 > $f2

thanks jlliagre : I'll master the syntax yet !