Hi,
Perl is your friend (tested solution).
% perl -pli~ -e 's/\t/ /og' filename
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Dale wrote,
It seems that none of the solutions presented allowed sed to find and
replace the -newline character pair.
Now that it's phrased that way, a memory arises.
I was trying to make filters to make articles posted to a mailing list
readable a while back (my ISN hardware would freeze
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
And this may allow me to deal with the hyphons at the end of the lines. I
can do one pass through sed replacing new lines with \n, and then make
another pass editing out all the '-\n'. I am still left with the problem
of converting all the other '\n'
Well, it's time to sum up the efforts of all you good folks out there who
tried to relieve my ignorance. I want to thank you all for the information
(even Aaron was helpful) you imparted and the spirit of helpfulness for
what was clearly an off topic post.
First cntrl-v is a very nice new trick
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
Before people start flooding this thread with nifty perl one-liners, I
would really like to see how this is done with sed.
oops. too late. no script-language-religious-war intended, though. i use
perl and sed and think they're both great.
i'd also like
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: You are absolutely correct, and as a developer I should probably know
: better. My only excuse is that I spend a lot of time on this list, and
: consider the folks here my friends. This leaves little time to go
: exploring other venues, and besides, I'd
I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a
large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with
spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to
remove.
For the tabs, I try the following:
sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g'
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For the tabs, I try the following:
sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' infile outfile
Which very cleanly places every t in the document with a space!??
For the hyphonation I try:
sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile
and although the file gets slightly smaller (I
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile
and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just
what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is corrected.
This isn't quite the appropriate venue
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Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a
large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with
spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to
remove.
For the tabs, I try
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Personally, I find the off topic threads on this list are often very
interesting. I almost always learn some new twist or trick that I had not
seen before, so it is my hope that, when I have problems, the solution may
be valuable to others as well.
I
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a
large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with
spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to
remove.
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote:
:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile
:
: and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just
: what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is
Nathan E Norman writes:
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote:
:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile
:
: and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out
just
: what had been removed) none
Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote:
Your problem is that the inner quotes don't add another level quoting, but
take away another level of quoting. To be a little clearer:
sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' infile outfile
^^ are the quoted
Aaron Denney wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the tabs, I try the following:
sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' infile outfile
Which very cleanly places every t in the document with a space!??
For the hyphonation I try:
sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile
and although the
Dale Scheetz writes:
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile
and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just
what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is corrected.
This isn't quite
Thank you all for the many kind replies. Many of you pointed out my
mistake as did Oliver, which stems from a poor reading of the sed man
page. I blindly looked for tab and found a table of backslashed characters
and their equivalents. On second reading I discover that these are the
output
Dale Scheetz wrote:
The ctrl-v works fine for a tab, but I have no newline key on my keyboard,
only an enter (which produces ^M when pressed after ctrl-v and the search
fails). Is there a way to enter a character by giving its ascii value (in
dos the alt key lets you enter the decimal value to
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a
large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with
spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to
remove.
For the tabs, I
Stephen Zander wrote:
Aaron Denney wrote:
This isn't quite the appropriate venue for such questions, as it is
a general unix/sed question and not very specific to Debian. In the
future try the newsgroup comp.unix.programmer or comp.unix.questions.
Lignten up :) Dale provides immense
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