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Old 06-06-2001
How to replace newline "\n"
How do I replace the newline character in "vi" editor.

I want to replace the string " \n" (ie, Blank followed by NewLine) with " " . How do I do this?

I want to try this from vi editor and then using "sed".


Thanks,
# 2  
Old 06-07-2001
If you want to marge rows ( for exp. row 1 to 20 ) do:
:1,20 j
yairon
# 3  
Old 06-07-2001

tr "\n" " " < filename


# 4  
Old 06-07-2001
But, I want to replace the newline character only if it is followed by a blank space.

ie, I wan to replace "blankspace\n" with "blankspace" and dont want to replace (say, ";\n")

Thank u verymuch for your response
# 5  
Old 06-09-2001
NewLine
What i interpreted from your question is that you have a file in which the text is somewhat as shown

\n
sdsdjfsjnfj \n asdmkasmdkamdk \n
sdmfksdmfksd \n
\n
masdkak \n
\n

and now you want to replace the " \n" with ""
so you can try the search and replace command i.e
:%s/ \\n//g
I tried this on solaris and it worked fine.

Smilie
# 6  
Old 06-09-2001
It didn't work on Linux.

Note where "\n" is new line. It seems u are taking "\n" as a string of "\" and character "n".

Thanks,
 
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