Hello all I have a file that looks like this. 176409|L02|330.0||1198|820|2392|00|4620|80|Optional Housing Fee: Two Person, Two Bedroom Super Suite|0|0|CL|||||$ 178190|OT3|2500.0||1198|318|3608|00|4620|25|Gold\$ |1|12|AC|||||$ 175867|E01|70.0||1198|318|1604|00|4620|25|Masonry Design Software|17|999|AC|||||$ 178591|050|0.0||1198|314|2342|00|4610|10|1262-L Flicks on Friday\$ |0|40|AC|TEMPLE ISRAEL||||$ 178591|051|0.0||1198|314|2342|00|4610|10|1263-L Introduction to Drawing|0|15|AC|THE KENWOOD||||$ 178591|052|0.0||1198|314|2342|00|4610|10|1264-L Computer Basics|0|19|AC|CECC||||$ I need to remove the carraige return when ever this is a \ at the end of the line I have been tring to use sed but been unable to make it work. I belive the $ is the carraige return. Thanks for any help

Try this. It should output in the format you desire. #!/bin/ksh exec 3< ./junk.data while read -ru3 line do if [[ $line = *\\ ]] then IFS="$IFS\\" outline=$line else outline=$outline$line print -r $outline unset outline fi done

perl -ni -e 'chomp if /\\$/'

Thanks I will give it a try tonight