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Old 02-14-2008
move the last word to begining of next line - SED
Hello,

I'm trying to move the last word of matching pattern to the begining of next line. Appreciate if anyone post the script.

From the below line I'm getting the last word, Note: this word also appears in many places in my file

#return the last word of line that contains ListenPort
sed -n -e 's/.*\(ListenPort="[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"\)$/\1/p' test.txt

Input:
Code:
ListenAddress="xyz.com" ListenPort="11111"
Name="V1Server" NativeIOEnabled="true"
<Machine Name="xyz">
   <Manager ListenAddress="" ListenPort="11113" Name="xyz"/>
</Machine>

ListenAddress="xyz.com" ListenPort="11112"
Machine="xyz" Name="V2Server"

Expected Output:
Code:
ListenAddress="xyz.com" 
ListenPort="11111" Name="V1Server" NativeIOEnabled="true"
<Machine Name="xyz">
   <Manager ListenAddress="" ListenPort="11113" Name="xyz"/>
</Machine>
ListenAddress="xyz.com" 
ListenPort="11112" Machine="xyz" Name="V2Server"

Thanks
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-04-2010 at 04:04 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 02-15-2008
This should give the expected ouput:

Code:
awk '/ListenAddress=/{printf("%s\n%s ", $1, $2);next}$0{print}' input

Regards
# 3  
Old 02-15-2008
Thanks for your reply

I still could not make it work due to syntax. Again, the pattern ListenAddress also appears in the middle of line which I dont want to tocuch it.
Code:
awk '/ListenAddress=/{printf("%s\n%s ", $1, $2);next}$0{print}' File1
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

Thanks again
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-04-2010 at 04:01 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 4  
Old 02-15-2008
use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk for this syntax...
# 5  
Old 02-15-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by baskar
Again, the pattern ListenAddress also appears in the middle of line which I dont want to tocuch it.
Sorry, to search for the pattern only on the beginning of the line:

Code:
awk '/^ListenAddress=/{printf("%s\n%s ", $1, $2);next}$0{print}' input

If you get errors, use gwk, nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris

Regards
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