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Revision: 16901
at August 18, 2009 17:34 by deepsoul
Initial Code 
# shell functions save a lot of typing...
function fixbbl()
{
  # This will overwrite the target file in-place
  sed -i ':s
/%$/{
  N 
  bs
} 
s/%\n//g' "$1"
}

# usage:
fixbbl document.bbl
Initial URL 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/11/msg00692.html
Initial Description 
The tetex implementation of BibTeX, LaTeX's bibliography tool, forcibly breaks lines above a certain length (79 chars) by inserting % signs and line feeds, unless they can be broken between words.  This is a problem when URLs are referenced, or if control sequences without spaces between them are used.

The following solution using sed improves on the one given in the post above in that it works if a line is broken twice or more times.  It can be used as an example on how to concatenate lines ending with a specific character indicating continuation.
Initial Title 
Fix BibTeX URLs and long lines
Initial Tags 
url
Initial Language 
Bash