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Old 10-03-2010
Remove newline & space
Can someone help me on this. I have a file that has a long line just like below. The long line keeps on being truncated to the next line (new line + space) for some reason. Basically, I just need to remove this problem. Hope somebody can help! Thanks!

INPUT FILE:
Code:
structuralObjectClass: javaContainer
creatorsName: administrator
createTimestamp: 20080221122414
javaReferenceAddress: #0#Enable#false
javaReferenceAddress: #1#LocalStoreDirectory#/opt/infra/script/bi
 n
javaReferenceAddress: #2#boolean#false
javaReferenceAddress: #3#URL#http://10.10.10.1:4215,http://10.10.10.
 2:4215
javaReferenceAddress: #4#randomize#true

OUTPUT FILE SHOULD BE:
Code:
structuralObjectClass: javaContainer
creatorsName: administrator
createTimestamp: 20080221122414
javaReferenceAddress: #0#Enable#false
javaReferenceAddress: #1#LocalStoreDirectory#/opt/infra/script/bin
javaReferenceAddress: #2#boolean#false
javaReferenceAddress: #3#URL#http://10.10.10.1:4215,http://10.10.10.2:4215
javaReferenceAddress: #4#randomize#true

# 2  
Old 10-03-2010
Code:
perl -0pe 's/\n //g' infile > outfile

# 3  
Old 10-03-2010
Code:
$ ruby -00 -ne 'puts $_.gsub(/\n+[[:space:]]+/,"")' file

# 4  
Old 10-04-2010
Code:
sed '
  :loop
  $b
  N
  s/\n\([^:]*\)$/\1/
  t loop
  P
  s/.*\n//
  t loop
 ' infile >outfile

(sets a branch target,
for last line print and exit,
read in a second line,
if there is no : in the second line, remove the linefeed to attach it to the first
and go back to see if there is another line to attach,
else write out the first line,
remove it from the buffer and
go back to see if there is another line to attach
)
Last edited by Scott; 10-04-2010 at 03:52 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 5  
Old 10-04-2010
Code:
awk '{gsub("\n ","")}1' RS= file

 
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