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Old 04-21-2016
Remove newlines and carriage return from a csv file using UNIX
I need to remove new lines and carriage returns from csv file.
Is there anything other than sed and gwak by which we could achieve this ? Any suggestions ?
Last edited by A_Gaddale; 04-21-2016 at 04:40 PM..
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Old 04-21-2016
Why do you "need to give another possible solution"? Is this homework? If yes: post in the appropriate forum and follow the rules.
If it is not, pls. explain what it is needed for and answer the introductory question.
Last edited by RudiC; 04-21-2016 at 04:52 PM..
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Old 04-22-2016
DOS2UNIX
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Originally Posted by A_Gaddale
I need to remove new lines and carriage returns from csv file.
Is there anything other than sed and gwak by which we could achieve this ? Any suggestions ?
Hello,

search for dos2unix.

Regards
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Old 04-22-2016
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Originally Posted by bdittmar
Hello,

search for dos2unix.

Regards
The dos2unix utility (on systems that have it) removes the <carriage-return> from <carriage-return><newline> character pairs.

To remove all <carriage-return> and <newline> characters from a file, you probably want to use tr as in:
Code:
tr -d '\r\n' < file

but, of course, the output produced is not a text file since it only contains one (perhaps extremely long) partial line (with no line terminator).
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