I'm very familiar with the tr command and use it a lot when removing
certain characters from files, but my situation today is involving
needing to remove a newline character from a certain area in the
file.... not all newline characters in the entire file.

If I had a 100 line file and wanted to state "ONLY Between lines 35
and 42, remove the newline character", how would I do that?  I'm
thinking this would involve sed, but am unsure about the setup.

Thanks.

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2004-09-3, 06:40(-07), John:
> I'm very familiar with the tr command and use it a lot when removing
> certain characters from files, but my situation today is involving
> needing to remove a newline character from a certain area in the
> file.... not all newline characters in the entire file.
>
> If I had a 100 line file and wanted to state "ONLY Between lines 35
> and 42, remove the newline character", how would I do that?  I'm
> thinking this would involve sed, but am unsure about the setup.

Please don't multi-post, your question was already answered in
comp.unix.questions

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In article <933293a5.0409030540.596094c1@posting.google.com>,
pokechoppe@aol.com (John) wrote:

> I'm very familiar with the tr command and use it a lot when removing
> certain characters from files, but my situation today is involving
> needing to remove a newline character from a certain area in the
> file.... not all newline characters in the entire file.
>
> If I had a 100 line file and wanted to state "ONLY Between lines 35
> and 42, remove the newline character", how would I do that?  I'm
> thinking this would involve sed, but am unsure about the setup.
>
> Thanks.

In case someone hasn't mentioned this in the other group you posted in
(cross-posting is encouraged in the unix groups), why not write a perl
or awk script to read lines and keep a count.  If the count is between
35 and 42, output the line without the trailing "\n" otherwise just
output the line.

just a SMOP (simple matter of programming)...

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