rpl command help??? 2

[wellster34]

Hi,

I have a data file, an example is shown below, called input.dat:

"1"
"2"
"3"

It contains double quotes around the numbers, so I want to replace the double quotes with a blank.

rpl '&quot;' &quot;&quot; < input.dat > new.dat

Now, when I run this, it returns what I want with the exeception that it adds a blank line at the end of file. So, instead of having 3 rows in the new.dat file, I now have 4! 3 rows like:
1
2
3

with an additional line that is a blank.

Is there a reason why a new blank line gets added? Is there a way to remove it? Or any other ideas on how to perform what I'm trying to do.

Thanks for your time.

 

[olded]

wellster:

What you've described should not be leaving a blank line. You could use something like:

sed /^$/d data.file

to delete all blank lines from data.file.

Regards,

Ed

 

[dickiebird]

or try sed to do the whole job :

sed 's/\&quot;/ /g' infile > outfile

HTH Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[wellster34]

Thank you both! Your ideas worked perfectly!