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From: epement@ripco.com (Eric Pement)
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Subject: Re: SED question
Date: 21 May 1998 05:13:53 GMT
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stegri@rocketmail.com wrote:
: Does anybody know if it is possible to "join" two lines in SED?

: Eg. sed  -e "s/\n//g" file.txt         only this doesn't work.

   Yes, of course it's possible. But since sed only works on one
line at a time, you first have to get two lines (or more) into
the pattern space. For this, you need the N command.

   # find a line containing "foo"; get the Next line; delete
   # the intervening newline between them; print the long line
   sed -e '/foo/{N; s/\n//;}' file.txt

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