Replacing end of line character with another

[richardii]

How can I replace every end of line character in my input file with another character?

I tried gsub(\n,"cChar&quot, and gsub(/\n/,"cChar&quot

Nothing seems to work!

 

[grega]

Not sure if you want to remove the EOF character or not. Does this do what you want?

sed 's/$/X/g' filename

Greg.

 

[richardii]

Thanks - but I was hoping to use GNU awk, I used to have something called wsed (I'm using a pc). Now I can't find it....

 

[grega]

OK, is this any good?

gawk '{print $0"X"}' filename

Greg.

 

[Krunek]

richardii, hello!


A few words about end-of-line character

Unix text file marks the end of the line with newline character ('\n').
DOS text file has a two-character sequence, carriage return and newline ('\r\n') at the end of the line.

For example Unix text file

1st row
2nd row

would be stored as a character sequence

1st row\n 2nd row\n


Text tools (like vi and awk) handle automaticaly with end-of-line character (abbr. EOL).

To replace EOL you can:
(1) join two lines, for example (see Unix text file example)

awk code:
{ line = line $0; print line }

result:
1 st row
1 st row 2nd row

(2) add character after EOL-character

awk code:
{ print $0 "X" }

result:
1 st rowX
2nd rowX


I hope this helps.

Bye!

KP.

 

[richardii]

Thank you for all your help. Following from your comments I have found that:

BEGIN{ORS=""}

{print $0}

will do what I want.