On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:52 +1000, david wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ cat > test > 1 > 2 > 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ sed s/1\n/1/g test > 1 > 2 > 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ > > The output I would have liked would be: > > 12 > 3 > > but sed doesn't seem to work like that. Pity. I'm pretty sure you can't > get vim to do it either. I'm assuming vim just uses sed anyway?
vim will do that just fine, and is pretty much my go-to when I find myself needing to do it. I did find a way to search/replace across newlines with sed, too, but it made my head hurt. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
