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From: smk@cbnews.att.com (Stephen M. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to strip A NEWLINE
Summary: What if last line ends with \?
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.213238.21282@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 30 Nov 90 21:32:38 GMT
References: <25665@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1781@seti.inria.fr>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1781@seti.inria.fr>, deschamp@minos.inria.fr (Philippe Deschamp) writes:
> [sed script to remove \<new-line>]
> 	sed -e ': more
> 		/:\\$/{
> 		N
> 		s/:\\\n	*:*/:/
> 		t more
> 		}'

Anybody got any ideas on how to make this script work on input of the form

one:\
two:\
three:\
oops:\
<EOF>

Currently, the N command aborts and the script produces no output on the
last iteration; I'd like it to just act as if the last \ wasn't there.

Steve Kennedy
smk@cbosgd.att.com
smk@cbnews.att.com