Kennethk, Linuxer, Ambrus, thanks a lot for your help, Linuxer you got the idea perfectly, many times is very dificult to explain yourself in words and you did it.

The best solution is what Ambrus wrote

perl -wpe 'if (/\bremotely\b/.../\bp_args\b/) { chomp }'

The only problem with this is that it joins the line that is after "p_args" but I can deal with that (perl -e "s/\';host=/\';\host=\n/g" -p data00 > data01. Thanks a lot again for your help, tips and advice

In reply to Re^2: Join lines that match an string by ranrodrig
in thread Join lines that match an string by ranrodrig

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