While the how of doing this would depend on your editor of choice, functionally, all you need to do is globally replace all of the "new line" characters with nothing and then globally replace all of the segment terminators with the same character followed by a "new line".
I think in "VI", it'd be something like: s/<search-string>/<replace-string>/g Where "/n" is the new line character and the file uses a tilde (~) as a segment terminator. s/\n//g s/~/~/n/g Sorry if that's not the exact formatting, but I'm not a Unix person. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Bev Hyer Sent: Fri 11/7/2008 1:30 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Brad Gilker Subject: FW: [EDI-L] Re:<tech> Wrap/Unwrap Utility We are looking for a utility that will run on a Unix box (Solaris to be specific) that will take a wrapped x12 file (either 80 character or 255 characters wrapping) and unwrap the data to be one segment per line. Segments in the unwrapped file which originally spanned two lines need to now be on a single line. Does anyone know of a utility or set of Unix commands to perform this? Or Java that will run on Unix. And does anyone know of a utility that will wrap a file? _______________________________________ Bev Hyer Developer Analyst - EDI Gateway TELUS Business Transformation - Information Services 10020-100 St, Floor 11 Edmonton, AB T5J 0N5 *: (780) 493-5405 *: (780) 717-0117 *: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
