asking a sed guru

iribach · Jul 29, 2004

Code:

#n
/adr0/,/adrX/p

this works perfect, as expected, suppose it
prints:

Code:

aaa
bbb
ccc

Q: how join the output lines to 1 string: like

Code:

aaabbbccc

with endind '\n' ?
sed has (maybe i have) problems with '\n'
tia

iribach · Jul 29, 2004

PS:
no problems doing it in AWK, PERL or C
SED is required

stefanwagner · Jul 29, 2004

Code:

sed 's/.*$/aaabbbccc/g;q' input

works like a charm

for real: why only use sed?
Is tr allowed?

Code:

cat abc.file | tr -d "\n"

Well - Helmut Herold, "awk und sed", Addison Wesley, 1997, p. 233 says:
(sedfile: repnl.sed)

Code:

/^[a-zA-Z]*$/H
/^[a-zA-Z]*$/d
H
g
s/\([a-zA-Z]*\)\n/\1/g

sed -f repnl.sed abc.file

Don't expect explanation.

seeking a job as java-programmer in Berlin:

Ygor · Jul 30, 2004

Code:

#n
/adr0/,/adrX/H
/adrX/{g;s/\n//g;p;d;}