Re^3: Two line match

use -0 to read whole file at once:

cat foo.txt | perl -p0 -e 's/-----\n\n-----/------/g'
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Re^4: Two line match by jrosenfeld (Initiate) on Mar 10, 2008 at 16:47 UTC
Thank you for the suggestion, but it only takes two lines and converts it into 1. I would like a one-liner to convert any number of lines of: ------ into one line of it. Jeff	[reply]
Re^5: Two line match by grizzley (Chaplain) on Mar 10, 2008 at 18:17 UTC
Understood. `perl -p0 -e 's/-----\n(\n\|-----\n)*-----\n/-----\n/g' file.txt` [download]	[reply] [d/l]