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sed - remove line break if line does not end on \"

I have a tsv.-file and there are some lines which do not end with an '"'. So now I would like to remove every line break which is not directly after an '"'. How could I accomplish that with sed? Or any other bash shell program...

Kind regards, Snafu

Solution

  • give this awk one-liner a try:

    awk '{printf "%s%s",$0,(/"$/?"\n":"")}' file

    test

    kent$  cat f
"foo"
"bar"
"a long
text with
many many
lines"
"lalala"

kent$  awk '{printf "%s%s",$0,(/"$/?"\n":"")}' f
"foo"
"bar"
"a longtext withmany manylines"
"lalala"