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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 9, 2011 5:03 UTC (Fri) by jthill (guest, #56558)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by felixfix
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

sed does exactly what you want. For instance, to accumulate aptitude show's output one package per line: sed -nr '/^Package:/!{H;$!d};x;s/\n/\x0/gp'

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