Text Manipulation/Replacement

[Rick Stevens]

Ubence Quevedo wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
> 
>> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:03:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: Text Manipulation/Replacement
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> poc
>>
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> 
> Thanks for splitting hairs.  :^)  \r is what first came to mind.
> I've got a lead from another list that I posted on how to use perl to accomplish what I need, but it isn't specific enough to not replace all new lines with empty space:  cat foo.txt | perl -pi -e 's/\n//g'
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

Uh, how about:

	cat file.txt | sed '$!N;s/\n//' >newfile.txt
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