perl -p -e 's/\\\n//' < ipf.rules > ipf.rules.new
or
perl -pi -e 's/\\\n//' ipf.rules
(to modify the file in place).
-Antony
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 17:24, Slawek wrote:
> well, this may help somebody else as well....
>
> > Michael T. Davis wrote:
> > > My first attempt went line this:
> > >
> > > sed 's/ \\$//' ipf.rules
> > >
> > > That only removed the trailing backslash. According to the sed man
>
> page,
>
> > > lines of input are normally read in up to the terminating newline
> >
> > character
> >
> > > "...unless there is something left after a `D' function..." So, I
> > > tried using the `D' function:
> > >
> > > sed '/ \\$/D' ipf.rules
> > >
> > > This ended up deleting the entire content of lines with terminating
> > > backslashes.
> > >
> > > I would think this would have been a pretty simple task to implement,
> > > but it's becoming increasingly frustrating. Help!
> >
> > sed -e :a -e '/\\$/N; s/\\\n//; ta'
> >
> > hope this helps,
> > Slawek
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