How to remove over written lines

MrUmunhum · 04-19-2010, 03:47 PM

Hi group,
I need to filter the log from a massive wget. I want to remove the progress lines and only leave the last one. Now each progress line starts with a newline '\r'. Would awk be a good choice for this??

Thanks for your time.

anomie · 04-19-2010, 04:52 PM

The '\r' - or hex D - actually represents a carriage return. (Newline is represented by '\n', or hex A.)

Yes, this can be done using awk. May I ask why each progress line starts with a carriage return..? It seems very odd that wget would insert such a thing.

devnull10 · 04-19-2010, 04:58 PM

It might be worth posting a condensed version of your file here so that people can see exactly what you are working with.