removing end of line mark with sed

[Chris Bertin]

In article <1990Aug19.234327.19785 at iwarp.intel.com>, merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
> In article <1990Aug19.194911.16628 at fs-1.iastate.edu>, spam at hobbes (Begley Michael L) writes:
> | Here's a simple one...
> | How do I remove the end of line marker from a stream?  for example,
> 
> I horsed around with the 'N' command in sed, thinking I could make it
> do that, and figured out that I had lost the sed touch.  (Somebody
> will most certainly post the proper way to do it.)  Try
> 
> /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\

Here is an ugly way to do it with sed:

(cat $1; echo '\n_E_o_F_\n') | \
   sed -e ':top' -e '1,/_E_o_F_/ N' -e 's/\n/ /' -e 't top' -e 's/ _E_o_F_//'

Note that:
	sed -e ':top' -e '1,$ N' -e 's/\n/ /' -e 't top'
doesn't work because sed won't print lines that are not terminated by a
carriage return (bug?).  If sed allowed addresses like '$-1', it would
make life simpler as well.
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