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Old 08-08-2006
vish_indian vish_indian is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by xb88
In other words, I want a result as following:
This is a test ONE TWO Hello, world!
test again three, four five six seven world
test eight, nine world
Awk can do it.

Code:
awk '/test/,/world/{ if($0~/world/) ORS="\n"; else ORS=" "; print}' filename
Sample output:
This is a test ONE TWO Hello, world!
test again three, four five six seven world
test eight, nine world