Answer by steeldriver for How to use sed to remove newlines above and below a...
Rather then treating the problem as a multi-line substitution, you might consider using the non-streaming ed editor instead, which provides a join command and supports relative addresses. Ex. given$...
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A backslash is used in ERE's to escape (strip special meaning from) characters in order to match them literally ... However, in BRE's, it also adds a special meaning to some characters.So, it has a...
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To be able to use \n as newline character in a sed command you have to use the -z flag, which separates the lines by NUL characters instead of newlines (\n). So the command you can use is the...
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I'd like to change all occurrences of \ntoken1\n and \ntoken2\n to token1 and token2 in a file).I thought this would do it:${NNs/\ntoken1\n/token1/s/\ntoken2\n/token2/}but it does not.Thanks in advance...
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Using any awk and only storing 1 line at a time in memory:$ awk ' /^(token1|token2)$/ { ors=ORS="" } { printf "%s%s", ors, $0; ors=ORS; ORS=RS } END { printf "%s", ors }'...
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