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Name: cseuser
Date: November 20, 2007 at 01:17:05 Pacific
OS: Linux
CPU/Ram: Intel
Product: IBM
Comment:

Hi

I have a problem with sed here.

I used the following to concatenate the next line if I have a semi-colon (;) at the end of a line. This is the command I use

sed '/[^;]$/{N;s/\n//;}'

But now I need to add a condition. I want to check for a word like APPLE in the line and do the concatenation only if I find APPLE in the sentence.

What can I do for this?

Any idea?

Thanks.



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Name: Guy
Date: November 20, 2007 at 18:42:49 Pacific
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If I use your sed script with this data:

line 1
line 2;
line 3
line 4;
line 5;
line 6

I get this output:

line 1line 2;
line 3line 4;
line 5;
line 6

Is that what you expect?

Please give me sample input data and expected output with APPLE present or not.



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