How to strip A NEWLINE

[Don Bolton]

In article <25665 at uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> bjs at reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith) writes:
>
>When TFM fails, when all the books I have fail, I run to netland.
>
>I have searched high and low for the answer on how to strip a NEWLINE
>charactor from a file.  Well not really a NEWLINE char, but a ":\\\n"
>(colon,back-slash,newline).  I have tried useing sed with:
>
>	sed 's/:\\\n//' file
>
>and using the RS variable in awk, but to no avail.  sed will remove
>the colon and the back-slash, but not the newline.
>
>Here is the section of code that I am playing with.

Not taking time to play with it but.
a printf statement in awk will not input a newline unless you specify
one.

 { printf("%s|%s|%s|%s|%s|%s ", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6) }
  
  (assuming you want the pipe char as a seperator)

>
>#
>ps301d|bigps|qms|QMS-2210 in E301D:\
>	:lp=/dev/ttyb:sd=/var/spool/ps301d:\
>	:af=/var/adm/ps301d.acct:lf=/var/spool/ps301d/errs:\
>	:br#9600:rw:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:\
>	:mx#0:rg=printer:sf:sh:\
>	:if=/local/lib/ps/psif:of=/local/lib/ps/psof:\
>	:cf=/cis/reef/wp42/bin/wplpr:df=/local/lib/ps/psdf:\
>	:gf=/local/lib/ps/psgf:nf=/local/lib/ps/psnf:\
>	:rf=/local/lib/ps/psrf:tf=/local/lib/ps/pstf:\
>	:vf=/local/lib/ps/psvf:
>#
>
>This is what I want the file to look like after the (colon,back-slash,newline)
>has been striped.  As you can see what I really want is to strip a 
>(colon,back-slash,newline,tab), but if someone could just get rid of that 
>darn newline for me I would be *very* happy.
>
>#
>ps301d|bigps|qms|QMS-2210 in E301D:lp=/dev/ttyb:sd=/var/spool/ps301d:af=/var/adm/ps301d.acct:lf=/var/spool/ps301d/errs:br#9600:rw:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:mx#0:rg=printer:sf:sh:if=/local/lib/ps/psif:of=/local/lib/ps/psof:cf=/cis/reef/wp42/bin/wplpr:df=/local/lib/ps/psdf:gf=/local/lib/ps/psgf:nf=/local/lib/ps/psnf:rf=/local/lib/ps/psrf:tf=/local/lib/ps/pstf:vf=/local/lib/ps/psvf:
>#
>
>I know that perl can most likely solve this probelm nicely, so I am willing to
>hear of any responses, but for standardaztion I would like to use only standard
>unix filters.  Sorry Larry.
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