Text Manipulation/Replacement

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:57 -0700, Ubence Quevedo wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've used pdftotext to convert a pdf document to text and then used a combination of grep and awk to single out data and replace formatting that I didn't need.
> 
> The output data eventually looks like this:
> 12,123456789
> ,0987654321
> 
> But I want it to look like this:
> 12,123456789,0987654321
> 
> I've tried many different things with awk, but I can't get it replace \r, with just a ,

For one thing, end-of-line in standard Unix text files is not \r
(Carriage Return), it's \n (Newline).

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