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February 23rd, 2005, 09:24 AM

zlutovsky

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dsshed

Hi

i have data in files as shown below.

this is line one.

this is line two.

this is line four.
this is line five.

i have got rid of the empty lines by running the command sed '/^$/d'
and getting the file to the format below

this is line one.
this is line two.
this is line three.
this is line four.
this is line five.

i am asking your help/advise to end up with a file
format as below.

this is line one.this is line two.this is line three.this is line four.this is line five.

basically from the original file that i have, i want to get rid
of all the blank lines and then i want to get rid of all
new line charaters and stich all lines into one BIG SINGLE line
of data.

thanks for your time

What about a simple C program? You can write it as you wish and need not guess and try how the system commands work with huge files:

#include<stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
int c;

while ((c = fgetc(stdin)) != EOF) {
if (c != '\n')
fputc(c, stdout);
}
}

You can of course add test for succesfull read, return the completion code ...

Regards

#17

February 23rd, 2005, 09:30 AM

zlutovsky

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dsshed

What about a simple C program? You can write it as you wish and do not need to guess how the system tools work with huge files:

#include<stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
int c;

while ((c = fgetc(stdin)) != EOF) {
if (c != '\n')
fputc(c, stdout);
}
}

You can of course add test for reading errors, return the return code and and and...

Regards

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