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Old 06-28-2006
thestevew thestevew is offline
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Quick and dirty code to re-format your queries - assumes that each one starts with a comment preceded by "--"
Code:
while read a
do
if [[ $a = --* ]]; then
  print
  lf=$(echo $a|wc -w);
  print -n "$(echo $a|cut -d' ' -f $lf) |"
else
  print -n " "$a
fi
done < YourOriginalFile > YourReformattedFile
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