Shell Programming and Scripting

Sorry,

I mistook input pattern as 'xxxx' and hard coded it in awk.

So, what is the output you expect in the sample you had posted recently ?

HI Madan,

Thanks for your time.Here is the pattern i'm looking for.

Input:

asdasd|asdas|fsdfds|fsdfsd|dgsdfgfsdg|&&^**^(
^*(*(
asdhgasd|ashakljas|ffasdfdsf|Fsfsdfsdf|dfsdfds|&^&*
&^&*^07^%
fksdljflsdkj|lkjjklsd|dflkshjfklsd|sdfjkhsdlf|alfkfhsd|&*^&
*%^*&

ajskfhsdkjfh|sdfjklhsdkfj|sdfjklhsd|sdfjsdfhsd|asjhsdf|&^%#@^@
sdfsdfFSDF|SDFJKHFSDJ|wfhywufihwf|wfohfsd|fsduofhsdf|^&$^%#$#!!&@@
fasdjkgsdfh|fujghsdfjsd|skjfsd|dlskfhlsdjkf|sdjfklsdhf|$#%!
&^%!

Ouput:
asdasd|asdas|fsdfds|fsdfsd|dgsdfgfsdg|&&^**^(^*(*(
asdhgasd|ashakljas|ffasdfdsf|Fsfsdfsdf|dfsdfds|&^&*&^&*^07^%
fksdljflsdkj|lkjjklsd|dflkshjfklsd|sdfjkhsdlf|alfkfhsd|&*^&*%^*&
ajskfhsdkjfh|sdfjklhsdkfj|sdfjklhsd|sdfjsdfhsd|asjhsdf|&^%#@^@
sdfsdfFSDF|SDFJKHFSDJ|wfhywufihwf|wfohfsd|fsduofhsdf|^&$^%#$#!!&@@
fasdjkgsdfh|fujghsdfjsd|skjfsd|dlskfhlsdjkf|sdjfklsdhf|$#%!&^%!

Assume that all lines hev a fixed number of fields : 11

Code:

awk -F'|' '
   NF<11  { print; next}
   { printf("%s", $0) }
   '  infile

Jean-Pierre.

tested !

This gives the output expected

Code:

awk '{ if ( !/^$/ ) { getline tmp; if ( tmp !~ /^[a-zA-Z]/ ) { printf "%s%s\n", $0, tmp } else { print $0; print tmp } } } ' filename

Try..

Code:

nawk -F'|' 'b&&NF>1{print b}NF==1{b=b $0}NF>1{b=$0}END{print b}' file1 > file2