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Old 07-11-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hemangjani View Post
Code:
awk 'ORS=NR%2?";":"\n"' sample.txt
Could explain the awk line.

I'm so confused on awk and sed. Is there a good tutorial that explains what all that gibberish means?
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