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Can I make grep treat escaped multiline as a single line?
How can I make tools like grep treat multilines escaped with a backslash as a long single line?
Let's say I have some files that looks like this:
testvar=test1 \
test2 \
test3
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Removing control chars (including console codes / colours) from script output
I can use the "script" command to record an interactive session at the command line. However, this includes all control characters and colour codes. I can remove control characters (like backspace) ...