[nylug-talk] Help with sed expression?

[R. Mariotti]

Dale;

At least we've been able to determine that many readers of this list are 
astute and wide-eyed!  The 2nd \n what meant to be a \f so the actual 
request is to replace the \f\n sequence with a either a single \f or a 
\n\f sequence.

Sorry for the confusion.

B

Dale Harris wrote:
> 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
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