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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with removing embedded linefeeds Post 302539163 by stayalive on Friday 15th of July 2011 01:30:10 PM
Old 07-15-2011
Thanks guys. I guess as long as I know the number of columns in the record, I can tweak this awk code to strip out linefeeds embedded in columns.
 

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