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On 04/02/2014 01:14, Joseph wrote: |
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> I have a text file. How do I search and replace "carriage return"? |
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That is a horrible one to solve :-) |
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All the usual tools (grep, sed, tr) are line oriented so they will take |
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one line and replace the CR at the end with something else plus a CR! |
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i.e. they don't do multi-line search and replace easily. I usually end |
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up resorting to using a text-editor.... |
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But sed can be persuaded to do it, if your really need a programmatic |
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solution: |
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http://sed.sourceforge.net/sedfaq4.html#s4.23.3 |
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Alan McKinnon |
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