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08-15-2007

Ygor

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This uses the sequence numbers to remove line breaks...

Code:

awk -F, 'NR==1{c=$1+1}$1!=c{printf "%s ",$0}$1==c{c++;printf "\n%s",$0}END{printf ORS}' file1 > file2