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Dan R. Hafalia

2004-02-05, 7:34 pm

I'm trying to make this captured log entry,,,,

13:28:30: Starting CALC ...
13:29:12: Finished CALC ...


into this single line,,,,
13:28:30: Starting CALC ...13:29:12: Finished CALC ...

using "tr" with no success.

any suggestion will be much appeciated,
thanks,
-dan




Uli Wachowitz

2004-02-05, 8:34 pm

"Dan R. Hafalia" <dhafalia@ccsf.edu> wrote:

> 13:28:30: Starting CALC ...
> 13:29:12: Finished CALC ...
>
>
> into this single line,,,,
> 13:28:30: Starting CALC ...13:29:12: Finished CALC ...
>
> using "tr" with no success.


have you tried 'tr [:cntrl:] -d'?

Jeff Schwab

2004-02-05, 11:34 pm

Dan R. Hafalia wrote:
> I'm trying to make this captured log entry,,,,
>
> 13:28:30: Starting CALC ...
> 13:29:12: Finished CALC ...
>
>
> into this single line,,,,
> 13:28:30: Starting CALC ...13:29:12: Finished CALC ...
>
> using "tr" with no success.
>
> any suggestion will be much appeciated,
> thanks,
> -dan


Here's the code to do that in vi. I've indented it nicely for you.

J

Assuming the next two lines are similar, so you need to skip a line
before doing this again, try this:

jJ

Alternatively, try typing this at your shell prompt:

perl -pe 'chomp if ++$a%2' $path

Good luck.

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