[nylug-talk] Help with sed expression?

[Dale Harris]

On 2007-08-22 at 22:16, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> elucidated:
> Can someone please test this? sed -r 's/\f$/\f/'
> 

I'm a little confused here.  Isn't the form feed causing the pages to
spit out?  In which case you want to get rid of it.

I think you want to use tr (like was suggested before), instead.

tr -s "\f\n" "\n"

may do what you want.  Or perhaps just use perl.

perl -pi -e 's/\f\n/\n/;'


Dale