[oclug] sed/tr question

[hdc at fs.ca]

On Friday 18 March 2005 04:27 am, Patrick Smith wrote:
> hdc at fs.ca wrote:
> > I need to combine these lines into a single line (and then perform other
> > manipulations on the data), so I am trying to use sed and/or tr to remove
> > the CR/LF combination.
>
> tr -d '\r\n' < file > newfile

That did it, thanks!  Not sure why I couldn't get it to work before.  Probably 
because I had been trying so many combinations and permutations in sed and 
getting nowhere, I just confused myself.

Still don't know why I can't get it to do this in sed.

Many thanks.

Hugh