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Hi ,
I have file which consists of multiple new lines. I need to identify the new line in every row of the file and remove it. It is having record delimiter as "|" and final delimiter of the line is "end" Can anyone from the forum suggest me how to remove the news lines from entire file?
example : ABB|CCC|GGG|H
H
H
H|
XXX|DDD|UUU
HHHH|
HHHH|FFF|K
K
K
KK|

expected file: ABB|CCC|GGG|HHH|
XXX|DDD|UUU|HHHH|
HHHH|FFF|KKKKK|

Code:

awk '/\|$/{ORS=RS}!/\|$/{ORS=OFS}1' OFS= file

Hi Yoda,
I have executed the above mentioned and this is the error im seeing

Syntax Error The source line is 1.
The error context is
>>> /\|$/{ORS=RS}!/\|$/{ORS=test. <<< txt}1
awk: 0602-502 The statement cannot be correctly parsed. The source line is 1.

Please advice me what changes I need to make it work

There should be a blank space between OFS= and your input file name.

Or you could use:

Code:

awk '/\|$/{ORS=RS}!/\|$/{ORS=""}1' inputfile

Yoda's code should work

try

Code:

awk '/\|$/{print}!/\|$/{printf $0}' file

I have tried and it dint work.
Sample file :
X|1233456|1|YVH|<P>This is a test </P>
<P>This is a test </P>
<P>This is a test</P>|<P>This is a test</P>
<P>This is a test</P>
<P>This is a test</P>|<P>This is a test</P>
<P>This is a test</P>
<P>This is a test</P>|||||||||

It is a large file has 100k rows and I see atleast 2000 rows having this type of issue.

Expected file :

X|1233456|1|YVH|<P>This is a test </P><P>This is a test </P><P>This is a test</P>|<P>This is a test</P><P>This is a test</P><P>This is a test</P>|<P>This is a test</P><P>This is a test</P><P>This is a test</P>|||||||||


Thanks for your replies

Which system you are using..?

Code:

$ cat file
X|1233456|1|YVH|<P>This is a test </P>
<P>This is a test </P>
<P>This is a test</P>|<P>This is a test</P>
<P>This is a test</P>
<P>This is a test</P>|<P>This is a test</P>
<P>This is a test</P>
<P>This is a test</P>|||||||||

Code:

$ awk '/\|$/{print}!/\|$/{printf $0}' file
X|1233456|1|YVH|<P>This is a test </P><P>This is a test </P><P>This is a test</P>|<P>This is a test</P><P>This is a test</P><P>This is a test</P>|<P>This is a test</P><P>This is a test</P><P>This is a test</P>|||||||||