[ale] regex assistance

[Ed Cashin]

If variety is a virtue, I'll share my favorite:

  xargs < myfile | sed 's! !|!g'

... where myfile contains the input.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Horkan Smith <ale at horkan.net> wrote:
> One more for variety...
>
> cat textfilename | ( read line; echo -n $line; while read line
>  do
>   echo -n ' | ' $line
>  done
> echo)
>
> As written it will echo at least one blank line even if your input file is empty.
>
> There's a good chance this would be the slowest of the choices, but if the file's not multi-megabyte I don't think it's going to matter.
>
> later!
>    horkan
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:09:17PM -0500, brock at quantifier.org wrote:
>>
>> Hello, linux neighbors,
>>
>> I am a regular expression amateur.  I have a text file with a bunch
>> of numbers, which looks like this:
>>
>> 00
>> 01
>> 02
>> 03
>> 04
>>
>> and I need to convert it, so that each number is on one line, and
>> separated with the | pipe, so:
>>
>> 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04
>>
>> If it's not too much trouble, could someone script-fu something up
>> to solve my problem?
>>
>> Thanks much,
>> Robert
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