[Chicago-talk] Replacing consecutive newlines with a single newline
Vijay Kumar
vjcang at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 18:04:10 PDT 2008
Hi,
I need to do it as part of unix command line invocation.
I thought I knew it but after trying for almost one hour I am still
unable to get it right.
Your ideas much appreciated.
perl -pe 's/(\n)+/\1/g' inputfile
perl -pe 's/(\n)+/\1/sg' inputfile
are not working.
I see the following reduces consecutive 'x' s to a single 'x'
perl -pe 's/(x)+/\1/g' inputfile
Not sure why it is not doing it for newline character. May be it is
very stupid mistake.
Thanks
VIJAY
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