Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I receive a | delimited text file containing 63 columns. There is no delimiter at the end of the 63rd field, instead there would be a newline character at the end of the text in 63rd column. I wanted to retain this newline character at the end of the 63rd column, as it is desired newline character.

However, in the text file, I receive newline characters randomly anywhere, in the first 62 columns, and that is totally undesirable. I just want to ensure that there is no newline characters among first 62 columns and only one that remains is at the end of the 63rd column.

Reading the file LINE by LINE, will not be a good approach here, I believe. But inspecting first 62 fields for any newline character would be the better approach according to my logic.

Have you come across such a scenario? Your inputs are highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thanks & Regards,
Sagar

Try this old thread: Newline characters in fields of a file