[SunHELP] sed, newline handling

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Markham, Richard wrote:

> Rich this is great.  One final kicker, if you don't mind =).

...

> expected output:
> This,is,a,test
> This,is,a,test
> ...

One of many, many ways:

gosset:~ > cat thisisatest
This
is
a
test

and
this
gosset:~ > cat thisisatest |(awk '{ if ($1) { printf "%s,",$1 } else print }'; echo) |sed 's/,$//g'
This,is,a,test
and,this

This could also easily be done in perl, or in Bourne/Korn shell.  I just
tend to think in awk.  The sed statement strips off the trailing comma,
which is easier to do there than to avoid generating it in the first
place.

-James