Andrew Solomon <and...@geekuni.com> writes:
> Hi Harry
>
> I was about to try to explain it but sometimes a picture is worth a
> thousand words (even if it's a picture of code:)
Yes, that did the job. I guess I was pretty confused about what
`slurp' means... I was expecting the newlines to disappear.
But of course, I see now, that first off $/ is the `input record
separator and so would not do like what one might to with awk using
its output record separator:
awk 'BEGIN{ORS=""}{print}' bar.txt
thisisavery long test
And secondly removing the new lines would probably introduce as many
problems as it might solve.
I just had it in my head that the newlines were to be ditched
somehow. So when I saw the result of processing my .bashrc file (which
I only used because it was handy for testing), I thought I was doing
something wrong. But ... it was working as advertised all the time.
Thanks for takine the time to clear that notion out of my head.
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