[Gllug] sed enlightenment

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:53:29PM +0100, Thomas Robinson wrote:
> Some might know what this does; so, just for a challenge, what does it
> do?
> 
> s/\r$//
> :top
> /=$/{
> N
> s/=\n//
> }
> /=$/b top

Join a set of lines that end in '=' together, removing the '='.
The treatment of carriage returns at the end of line is inconsistent,
you might want to move the top label up a line.

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