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For a file named threaddump.txt which contents delimited by ='s is:
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at org/springframework/security/ui/SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)[optimized]
at org/springframework/security/util/FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:406)[optimized]
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For which there's just line-feed as line separator (i.e. there's no carriage-return at all), and just ASCII chars there are whithin.
For unambiguity's sake, the input in question, printed through sed -n l, delimited by ='s is:
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at org/springframework/security/ui/SpringSecurityFilt\
er.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)[optimized]$
$
at org/springframework/security/util/FilterChainProxy\
$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:406)[optimized]$
$
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So, the wanted result is the input text transformed so that the newlines are replaced, one on one, by, let's say, literal 'X's (without quotes). So the result delimited by ='s, filtered through sed -n l, would be:
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at org/springframework/security/ui/SpringSecurityFilt\
er.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)X X \
at org/springframework/security/util/FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterCh\
ain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:406)X X$
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Of a couple of scripts that would seem apropriate to achieve this result, none of them does it but with littering. Each program invocation followed by its result, are shown next.
sed '$!N; s/\n/X/g;' threaddump.txt | sed -n l
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at org/springframework/security/ui/SpringSecurityFilt\
er.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)X $
at org/springframework/security/util/FilterChainProxy\
$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:406)X $
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sed '$!N; s/$/X/mg;' threaddump.txt | sed -n l
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at org/springframework/security/ui/SpringSecurityFilt\
er.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)X$
X$
at org/springframework/security/util/FilterChainProxy\
$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:406)X$
X$
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sed '$!N; s/$/X/mg; s/\n/X/g;' threaddump.txt | sed -n l
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at org/springframework/security/ui/SpringSecurityFilt\
er.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)XX X$
at org/springframework/security/util/FilterChainProxy\
$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:406)XX X$
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sed '$!N; s/\n/X/g; s/$/X/mg;' threaddump.txt | sed -n l
==========================
at org/springframework/security/ui/SpringSecurityFilt\
er.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)X X$
at org/springframework/security/util/FilterChainProxy\
$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:406)X X$
==========================