E Arredondo wrote:
> "John DuBois" <spcecdt@armory.com> wrote in message
> news:119ejq3b7mr18c6@corp.supernews.com...
>
>>In article <9wGle.2067$rY6.354@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
>>E Arredondo <atk@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>I can't sed my file because I found out that, after I receive the data
>>>from
>>>a http call and then *cat*ing it to a file from a cgi-bin script it makes
>>>a
>>>file like this whit the message "Incomplete Last line" and neither *tr* or
>>>*sed* would work unless I *vi* the file and then save the file to get rid
>>>of
>>>that message "Imcomplete last line", then tr and sed will work fine:
>>>How can I fix this issue with the "Incomplete last line" ?
>>
>>tr should work fine. sed does insist on a trailing newline. You can do:
>>
>>{ cat file; echo ""; } | sed ...
>>
>>to append a newline to its input. Or use awk, which doesn't have this
>>problem;
>>replace
>>
>> sed 's/foo/bar/'
>>
>>with
>>
>> awk '{sub(/foo/,"bar")}1'
>>
>>John
>>--
>
>
> My script is working now but I was just wondering if there's a way to
> compress the sed into 1 line to make it simpler to save some milliseconds or
> maybe seconds of processing time, Does it accepts semi colons or commas
> between searches ?, here's what my final script looks like, :
>
> -------------begin here --------------------
> FILE=/usr2/appl/fpmerge/cq$$.txt
> FILE2=/usr2/appl/fpmerge/cqa$$.txt
> cat > $FILE
> echo >> $FILE
>
> sed -e "s/%7E/\~/g" < $FILE > $FILE2
> sed -e "s/%3A/\:/g" < $FILE2 > $FILE
> sed -e "s/%0D%0A/\|/g" < $FILE > $FILE2 # this will let tr down below
> change all |'s for LF's
> sed -e "s/+/ /g" < $FILE2 > $FILE
> sed -e "s/%28/\(/g" < $FILE > $FILE2
> sed -e "s/%29/\)/g" < $FILE2 > $FILE
> cat $FILE | tr "|" "[\012*]" > $FILE2
>
> ------------cut here-------------
>
>
>
>

You can do multiple operations by separating sed commands with ";"

Just watch the order as each section sees the results of the previous:

date | sed "s/2005/2004/;s/May/June/;s/2004/2003/"

works as you think it would.



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