HI,

I am having a file as under :

A3/APT "ABCDEFG" 789 120612   1501
BLOCK SUPER
R        LVB   NDV   BLO
W2JO    10    680    20

awk '/^A...P.|^O/ {if(b) print b;b=$0;next} NF {b=b$0" "} END {print b}' myfile

A3/APT "ABCDEFG" 789 120612   1501      BLOCK SUPER R        LVB   NDV   BLO W2JO    10    680    20

A3/APT "ABCDEFG" 789 120612   1501;      BLOCK SUPER; R        LVB   NDV   BLO; W2JO    10    680    20

tr '\n' ';' < file | cat - <(echo)

Thanks! But it did not succeeded in my case.

Well, I agree wuth bartus11 though....

 
$ cat  vanand420
3/APT "ABCDEFG" 789 120612   1501
BLOCK SUPER
R        LVB   NDV   BLO
W2JO    10    680    20

$  cat  vanand420 | tr '\n' ';'
3/APT "ABCDEFG" 789 120612   1501;BLOCK SUPER;R        LVB   NDV   BLO;W2JO    10    680    20;

Thanks..might be shell issue. I am using bash on CYGWIN.

Uhm... strange. And what did happen?

However, try also this alternative:

mapfile -t line <myfile; for i in ${!line[@]}; do echo -n "${line[$i]};"; done; echo

@vanand420
Please post what you typed and what output was produced. Also please highlight what went wrong. I can see that a trailing semi-colon might be a problem as might be the absence of any line terminator after conversion.


Just in case:
99% of all text file processing problems on Cywin are caused because a text data file contains Microsoft line terminators (carriage_return line-feed) not unix line terminators (line_feed).
Please post the output from this enquiry on your input data file:

sed -n l filename