Suhen - Actually you've hit one of the limitations of the traditional Unix
tools such as awk, sed, etc. The perform multi-line changes only with
difficulty. Perl is as powerful and easy to use as each of those
individually, and offers incredible strengths beyond those. As a bonus, Perl
is availabl
Thanks Steven, Jared for the ideas.
Regards
Suhen
> -- Suhen Pather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Hey this is a not a trick question, without buying the books
> > listed below is there a way using the std awk, sed, tr *nix
> > utilities.
>
> Perl is going
-- Suhen Pather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hey this is a not a trick question, without buying the books
> listed below is there a way using the std awk, sed, tr *nix
> utilities.
Perl is going to be the simplest since it has a regex for
whitespace and you can easily change the input rec
Hey this is a not a trick question, without buying the books
listed below is there a way using the std awk, sed, tr *nix
utilities.
Suhen
> Flex, Bison & some programming will probably do the trick.
> There is a nice O'Reilly book dealing with Lex & Yacc wnd even
> nice
-- Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If isn't perfect. An 'and' at the end of the line will be joined with
> the beginning of the next line, which is not right.
Don't strip the newlines, replace them with white space:
perl -e 'undef $/; ($a=) =~ s/\n+/ /g; print $a' \
[file [fil
Flex, Bison & some programming will probably do the trick.
There is a nice O'Reilly book dealing with Lex & Yacc wnd even
nicer book dealing with the C programming language.
The Good Book is: Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie: The C Programming
Language.
You should get the King James (ANSII) ed
Here's a perl one liner:
perl -ne 'chomp; print; print qq{\n} if /\;$/' file1.txt > newfile.txt
If isn't perfect. An 'and' at the end of the line will be joined with
the beginning of the next line, which is not right.
I use the following two regular expressions to create executable SQL
from
oops, wrong direction -- you wanted to take out the newlines.
use chomp and print the resulting array with $, left at the
default value:
$ perl -e 'chomp (my @a = <>); print @a' myfile [anotherfile ...];
i.e., read from ARGV, put it all in an array, slice off the
input record separators; pri
$ perl -e 'print join "\n", <>' myfile;
-- Suhen Pather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> List, slightly off topic but
>
> Unix OS
>
> I need to join lines/ words in a file.
> So that it must be in a readable Oracle format.
>
> They are seperated by a newline.
>
> Here is a snippet of what the file looks li
