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Old 02-04-2014
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Originally Posted by ratheeshjulk
Is there a way we can delete all the new line characters between the tags <SubRecord> and </SubRecord> then i can replace the entire records using sed..
How about this for your later sed convenience:

Code:
awk 'gsub(/[[:space:]]+/,"") && length { print $0 RS }' RS="</SubRecord>" infile

# 9  
Old 02-05-2014
Hi Corona688 you code worked but it looks like it was repalcing only in the second module of the tag.
Code provided by Yoda replaces the lines and the following lines which can be tuned to get my requirement.

But thanks a lot, each post is giving me lot of new stuffs to learn..
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