----- Original Message ---- > From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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? Thanx! -Ubence -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
