[Chicago-talk] Replacing consecutive newlines with a single newline

[Jay Strauss]

Is it that the shell is eating your "\" chars?

Will:

 perl -pe 's/(\\n)+/\\1/g' inputfile

work?

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Vijay Kumar <vjcang at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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