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pbpaste | tr '\r\n' '\n' | tr '\r' '\n' | pbcopy
2012-07-31 10:50:14
User: adambrenecki
Functions: tr
Tags: newline clipboard mac os x
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OS X: clean up Windows and Classic Mac OS newlines from the text in the clipboard

Copying and pasting from Office documents open in Office:mac can dirty your files with Windows CRLF and (inexplicably) Classic Mac OS LF newlines, which can break some tools. This snippet replaces them with good ol' Unix LF newlines.

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read -d ""
2011-10-25 18:44:11
User: totti
Functions: read
Tags: file newline field separator null character
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Read null character seperated fields from a file

Handle any bad named file which contains ",',\n,\b,\t,` etc

Store the file name as null character separated list

find . -print0 >name.lst

and retrieve it using

read -r -d ""

Eg:

find . -print0 >name.lst; cat name.lst| while IFS="" read -r -d "" file; do ls -l "$file"; done
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find . ! -name "$(printf '*[\001-\037\177]*')"
2011-10-25 17:29:19
User: totti
Functions: find
Tags: find newline filename
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Skip filenames with control characters, a.k.a tab,newline etc
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perl -ple 'BEGIN { $\ = "\r\n" }'
2011-03-01 09:45:37
User: coffeeaddict_nl
Functions: perl
Tags: perl newline
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Convert Unix newlines to DOS newlines

Let -p do it's voodoo and do absolutely nothing but set the output record separator :-)

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awk 'BEGIN{RS="\0"}{gsub(/\n/,"<SOMETEXT>");print}' file.txt
2010-12-12 21:43:22
User: __
Functions: awk
Tags: Text Processing awk newline line
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Join lines

awk version of 7210. Slightly longer, but expanding it to catch blank lines is easier:

awk 'BEGIN{RS="\0"}{gsub(/\n+/,"<SOMETEXT>");print}' file.txt
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:g/\n"/jo
2010-09-11 18:51:41
User: mensa13
Tags: vim literal regex replace newline eol white space
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VIM subst any char different from literal

In case the line you want to join start with a char different than ", you may use \n.*"\n as regex.

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:%s/\([^\"]\)\(\n\)/\1 /g
2010-09-03 11:03:49
User: godzillante
Tags: vim literal regex replace newline eol white space
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VIM subst any char different from literal " + EOL with searched string + white space

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this line ends here

but must be concatenated with this one

"this line ends here"

and should NOT be concatenated with this one

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export IFS=$(echo -e "\n")
2009-07-09 15:25:37
User: darkpand
Functions: echo export
Tags: bash newline for IFS
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IFS - use entire lines in your for cycles

When you use a "for" construct, it cycles on every word. If you want to cycle on a line-by-line basis (and, well, you can't use xargs -n1 :D), you can set the IFS variable to .

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fold -s -w 90 file.txt
2009-05-11 23:00:25
User: vincentp
Functions: fold
Tags: Text Processing wrap fold text longlines newline
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wrap long lines of a text

wraps text lines at the specified width (90 here).

-s option is to force to wrap on blank characters

-b count bytes instead of columns

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