I need to turn this: Flibber Tee Gibbet$ 1/2/2003$ VerySpecial Number:$ 12345$ Short Description:$ ABC - Some Stuff - More stuff$ please.$ Thing That I Don't Care About:$ Totally don't care$ Yes I Care: 1.234$ More Goodness:$ Person, Place or Thing$ Nonsense:$ Bla$ More Nonsense: Bla$
into this: Flibber Tee Gibbet\t1/2/2003$ VerySpecial Number:\t12345$ Short Description:\tABC - Some Stuff - More stuff please.$ Yes I Care:\t1.234$ More Goodness:\tPerson, Place or Thing$ I've played around with RS and FS settings, trying to get AWK to treat ^ and $ as normal characters, to be poked and nudged around like any other, and I'd really like to be able to search for this regex: ^Flibber Tee Gibbet:$.*^VerySpecial Number:$ but AWK won't find it no matter what I set RS and FS to. Am I using the wrong tool? Is there some useful information that exists out there that my searching has not yet found? Or (more likely) am I just not getting it? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/awk---manip-mult-lines-by-treating-%5E-and-%24-as-normal-characters--tf3718758.html#a10404355 Sent from the Gnu - Grep mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
