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Removing newlines (n) with sed

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:35:42 +0000

Today I had to search again on how to remove newline special characters with sed. Thanks to Kamil over at linux.dsplabs.com.au, I found it again rather quickly.

Now, this is just for my own safekeeping, so I don’t end up googling for it again … 🤷

`1`	`echo -e "Line containing nnewlines!" \| sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/n//g'`

Praise teh sed

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:56:22 +0000

Since my talk with Robin on Thursday regarding the autogenerated userinfo.xml, I finally found some time today to get all the info’s I need out of userinfo.xml.

Since I don’t really want to manually enter all those mail addresses from userinfo into LDAP manually, I figured sed might be my best friend. BUT sed ain’t easy .. But thanks to Fabian and Gilles, I learned something new about sed today ..

Basically I searched for a way to transform userinfo.xml into a datafile for ldapedit.