LKBEN11004: Howto delete all newlines with vi in command mode
Symptom
You need to delete newlines
Cause
none
Solution
You are using vi and need to delete newlines. Type the following in the command mode:
:%s/\n//g
If you need to delete all newlines with Summary on the next line and replace it with , (=comma) you can use the following:
:%s/\nSummary/,/g
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Author:
- Keskon GmbH & Co. KGWim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.