scripting question with a text file 1

[tjv]

I have a text file that gets generated each evening and I want to do 2 things to it.

1.) Remove the lines that say Page 1 of whatever and
2.) Remove the extra line feed from the file. example below.

Page 1 of 1
This is a test to see how to
remove these
extra line feeds.

In the example above I want to remove the Page 1 of 1 and the test to appear like so:

This is a test to see how to remove these extra line feeds.

can this be done. Any help would be extremely appreciated.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

The awk way:

awk '
/^Page/{next}{printf $0}END{printf "\n"}
' </path/to/inputfile

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[tjv]

Ok, that worked great. I have one last thing that needs to be done to the file.

In the file there are title heading all of which are capitalized. I would like to have a return after these words to make the document look alittle more fancy.

(ex) THIS IS THE HEADING now the text begins.

Would like it to be

THIS IS THE HEADING
now the text begins.

Is it also possible to read up to the next heading and put a return before the next heading as to separate the text like this.

THIS IS THE HEADING
now the text begins.

NEW HEADING HERE

Thanks again for any help.

 

[PHV]

Try something like this:

awk '
/^Page/{next}
{printf $0;if($0==toupper($0))printf "\n"}
END{printf "\n"}
' </path/to/inputfile

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