[ale] sed help

[Robert Coggins]

Thanks to all for  your help.  I found the solution.  I stuck this in a 
for loop

sed -e $!N;/\n,,,,,$/!{P;D;};N;s/\n,,,,,\n/,,,,,/

Thanks again for all of you who were looking into this!

Robert Coggins wrote:
> OK all I hate asking questions like this on here but here we go.
>
> I have a series of files. In each of the files there are many lines that 
> only have ,,,,, on them.  For every line I find in these files I want to 
> bring the previous line, the ,,,,, line and the next line together.
>
> Example:
>
> 21321asdf2d6f5
> ,,,,,
> fdsdhfksd6df5+sdf
>
> seded to :
>
>
> 21321asdf2d6f5,,,,,fdsdhfksd6df5+sdf
>
> Here is what I am trying but it is not working...
> sed "s/\n,,,,,\n/,,,,,/g
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
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