Hi friends,

I have a file with following pattern.

OBJECT TYPE="locale",
NAME=locale_nl_NL, UNIQUE_FIELD=win32_lcid
FIELDS
clarify_lang = 0;
END_FIELDS
END_OBJECT NAME=locale_nl_NL

OBJECT TYPE="locale", NAME=locale_nl_BE
UNIQUE_FIELD=win32_lcid
FIELDS
iso_cntry = "BE";
END_FIELDS
END_OBJECT NAME=locale_nl_BE


I want to saparate lines starting with OBJECT till FIELDS. e.g.
My o/p file should look like

OBJECT TYPE="locale",
NAME=locale_nl_NL, UNIQUE_FIELD=win32_lcid

OBJECT TYPE="locale", NAME=locale_nl_BE
UNIQUE_FIELD=win32_lcid


How this can be done using perl/awk/sed??


thanks in advance,
-Ashish

I found follwing command useful for this.

$awk '/OBJECT *TYPE/,/FIELDS/' test.dat|grep -v FIELDS

any better, neat answers??

Vino,

seems some syntax problem with sed.

$ sed -n -e '/OBJECT TYPE/{N;p}' test1.dat
sed: command garbled: /OBJECT TYPE/{N;p}
$

?

vino ,
same problem.

Post the results of uname -a I guess it must be something with your sed.

Try this.
sed -n -e "/OBJECT TYPE/p" -e "/UNIQUE_FIELD/p" input.txt