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Old 10-06-2008
vijay_0209 vijay_0209 is offline
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try this....tell me if this works fine.....

awk '{
if(NR%3!=0)
{
print
}
else
{
for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)
{
if(i==1)
{
printf("%s ",substr($1,2,length($1)-1))
}
else
{
printf("%s ",$i)
}
}
printf"\n"
}
}' file
Last edited by vijay_0209; 10-07-2008 at 12:09 AM..