Small flaw in my previous example of using "tr" -- it deletes ALL newlines, which would not be a good thing to end up with a usable file. Do not use it as written. sed, awk or perl might be a better choice.
Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet. ..chris > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael T. Davis > I'll be the first to admit I'm not an UNIX guru. For readability, > we'd like to format our IPF rules file so that, for files longer than would > normally fit on the screen, we'd use line continuation characters to "wrap" > the lines, e.g.: > > ...a very long line that is \ > continued on one \ > or more lines > > Is there a filter (using Perl, awk, etc.) that could be applied to the rules > file which would allow IPF to accept it (i.e. join the continued lines)?
