sed to remove newlines?

[Rouben Rostamian]

In article <6356 at iron6.UUCP> yeates at motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates) writes:
|Is it possible to remove newlines (i.e. \n) from a file using sed?  If
|so how?
|...
|[Our current requirement is to concatenate any lines ending with a ':' to  the
|next line in a file.   Although I can think of numerous other uses ( we
|usually end up using tr '\012' '<some char.>' as a work around).]

To concatenate lines ending in a ':' to the following line using sed, do:

sed '/:$/{N; s/\n//; }' <infile >outfile

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