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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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generic bash parsing

Ok, so I'm confusing myself alot... too much grep / sed / awk...

I have a file which I want to parse in bash:

hello = "goodbye"
test =  "this line is
continued"

I can't seem to force sed, or anything else, to work with the line continuation...
maybe I can pre-parse it and remove newlines that have a "" before it... *shrug*
any help?

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cmp

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Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 350

Re: generic bash parsing

as you asked for new line removal, someone posted a link to advanced sed tricks, maybe you could modidy the one for newline-removal to remove only \n (in c-notation).

cactus

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Re: generic bash parsing

yeah, I would remove the newlines first..

sed '/\[ ]*$/N;s|\[ ]*n| |g'

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cmp

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Registered: 2005-01-03

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Re: generic bash parsing

I don't think that every new line should be removed, but this should do the trick (remove newline directly preceeded by a slash):

sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g'

but don't ask me how it works - just copy and paste programming (I modified one script)