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Any advice or tips would help alot. I'm using Slackware 10.1 and I do have basic experience with the typical editors. I'm hoping that there is a REG EXP that will do this.
Okay, assuming you've got some memory to spare, these definitely work.
For the earlier problem:
Code:
perl -e 'local($/);$file = shift @ARGV; open IN, $file; $contents = <IN>; close IN; $contents =~ s/\n\(/ (/gs; open OUT, ">$file";print OUT $contents;' filename
For the latest:
Code:
perl -e 'local($/);$file = shift @ARGV; open IN, $file; $contents = <IN>; close IN; $contents =~ s/([\d,]+)\n(\d+)\n/$1,$2\n/g; open OUT, ">$file";print OUT $contents;' filename
Now, one thing I noticed, when I got these files, they were in DOS format. My scripts don't account for that. But it's pretty simple to change them to do so. Just put a \r in front of every \n you see in them.
Is their a way to grab the lines that did get changed and put them into another file
and run the line again and repeat until there is nothing left in the old file and everything
is correct in the new file.
I don't know, maybe the use of a pipe "|" command or something.
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