How to replace only \n( line seperator ) not Data \n?


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to replace only \n( line seperator ) not Data \n?
# 1  
Old 11-22-2018
How to replace only \n( line seperator ) not Data \n?

Unix File is pipe delimited with 17 fields. We may get extra pipes in data also.
We may get \n char (1 or more \n in one field or multi fileds) in data in any field.
Need to replace \n true ( line separator) with 'space and bell char space' chars (' \a ') Not data \n.

Input:
455000|TTTT|97233|UUUUUU REP||Juli||EEEE||P.O. Box | 550 MMMMMMMMMM JJ 55555|||||||
333333|DDD|97233|UUUUUU REP||AMAR||AJAY||P.O. Box 69 MMMMMMMMMM | JJ 6666
JJJ BBBB P.O. Box 4 MMMMMMMMMM JJ 44444
delmer Speidel P.O. Box 242 MMMMMMMMMM JJ 99456, See File For More.....|||||||
888888|Director|97382|UUUUUU REP||ANTHONY|K|JOSHI||1144 JNM ROAD LLLLLLLLLLLLL | JJ 82513, Laurie Ideker, Leon Sanderson
coralie Emmons P.O. Box 34 LLLLLLLLLLLLL JJ 82513
wanda Knowles P.O. Box 958 LLLLLLLLLLLLL JJ 82513, See File For More...|||||||
999999|President|97692|UUUUUU REP||See||File|||||||||

Expected Output:
455000|TTTT|97233|UUUUUU REP||Juli||EEEE||P.O. Box | 550 MMMMMMMMMM JJ 55555||||||| \a 333333|DDD|97233|UUUUUU REP||AMAR||AJAY||P.O. Box 69 MMMMMMMMMM | JJ 6666
JJJ BBBB P.O. Box 4 MMMMMMMMMM JJ 44444
delmer Speidel P.O. Box 242 MMMMMMMMMM JJ 99456, See File For More.....||||||| \a 888888|Director|97382|UUUUUU REP||ANTHONY|K|JOSHI||1144 JNM ROAD LLLLLLLLLLLLL | JJ 82513, Laurie Ideker, Leon Sanderson
coralie Emmons P.O. Box 34 LLLLLLLLLLLLL JJ 82513
wanda Knowles P.O. Box 958 LLLLLLLLLLLLL JJ 82513, See File For More...||||||| \a 999999|President|97692|UUUUUU REP||See||File|||||||||
# 2  
Old 11-22-2018
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment This thread seems to be a duplicate of the thread Replace \n char in Data. Please continue any discussion on this topic there.

This thread is closed.
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace values in script reading line by line using sed

Hi all, Let's say I have a script calling for the two variables PA_VALUE and PB_VALUE. for pa in PA_VALUE blah blah do for pb in PB_VALUE blah blah do I have a text file with two columns of values for PA and PB. 14.5 16.7 7.8 9.5 5.6 3.6 etc etc I would like to read this... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: crimsonengineer
7 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed command to replace a line in a file using line number from the output of a pipe.

Sed command to replace a line in a file using line number from the output of a pipe. Is it possible to replace a whole line piped from someother command into a file at paritcular line... here is some basic execution flow.. the line number is 412 lineNo=412 Now i have a line... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vivek d r
1 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Multiple line search, replace second line, using awk or sed

All, I appreciate any help you can offer here as this is well beyond my grasp of awk/sed... I have an input file similar to: &LOG &LOG Part: "@DB/TC10000021855/--F" &LOG &LOG &LOG Part: "@DB/TC10000021852/--F" &LOG Cloning_Action: RETAIN &LOG Part: "@DB/TCCP000010713/--A" &LOG &LOG... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: KarmaPoliceT2
5 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed command to replace a line at a specific line number with some other line

my requirement is, consider a file output cat output blah sdjfhjkd jsdfhjksdh sdfs 23423 sdfsdf sdf"sdfsdf"sdfsdf"""""dsf hellow there this doesnt look good et cetc etc etcetera i want to replace a line of line number 4 ("this doesnt look good") with some other line ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vivek d r
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to know how to replace a line after a pattern match with an empty line using SED

Hi How Are you? I am doing fine! I need to go now? I will see you tomorrow! Basically I need to replace the entire line containing "doing" with a blank line: I need to the following output: Hi How Are you? I need to go now? I will see you tomorrow! Thanks in advance.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sags007_99
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need help to replace a pattern on specific line in a data file

Hi, I want to replace specific pattern "-2.0000 2" by "1.0000 3" on a particular line (line #5) in a file 1.dat. I have about 50 more files similar to 1.dat in which I want to do this correction. Can you please suggest how can I make change only at this particular line of a file... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: anuj06
6 Replies

7. Solaris

Line too long error Replace string with new line line character

I get a file which has all its content in a single row. The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file. I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ducati
4 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace data of one column with data on other file corresponding to transaction ID matched

Hi All, I have two files one of which having some mobile numbers and corresponding value whose sample content as follows: 9058629605,8.0 9122828964,30.0 And in second file complete details of all mobile numbers and sample content as follows and delimeter used is comma(,): ... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: poweroflinux
8 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Appending the line number and a seperator to each line of a file ?

Hi, I am a newb as far as shell scripting and SED goes so bear with me on this one. I want to basically append to each line in a file a delimiter character and the line's line number e.g Change the file from :- aaaaaa bbbbbb cccccc to:- aaaaaa;1 bbbbbb;2 cccccc;3 I have worked... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pjcwhite
4 Replies

10. Solaris

how i can use a WORD for seperator

hi, i want to use A WORD for seperator in awk or especially in cut. how i can perform this. is there any way to use a word for seperator. For example: i want to list all word after FROM and the files name contains this word. chatnorollback.svc: delete from info where nick ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: qrshat
3 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question