On 03/10/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to edit a multi line file as if it were all one line > > In other words, treat \n like any other character, and specifically > doing global find and replace. > > I know there are various hex editors, but they are all pretty clunky as > far as I can see, and none seem to be able to do that from command line. > > Is there a shell script way to do it?
Can you be more specific of what you are trying to achieve? A brief look at sed(1) (GNU sed 4.1.5 on Debian Etch) shows that "\n" in regular expressions will be treated as a newline, and in perl you can add "//s" modifier to make perl treat strings as single line (see perlre(1)). Also it might be worth digging the excellent vim.org web site, I wouldn't be surprised to find something there that will tell you how to do that using VIM. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
