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Old 08-16-2006
Question Format a column of text
Hi

I have a LONG ! column of text and I would like to format this into several columns.

so from this

abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnop
qrst
uvwx
yz12

to this

abcd efgh ijkl
mnop qrstu vwx
yz12

Smilie any help would be great
THANKS !
# 2  
Old 08-16-2006
Code:
nawk 'ORS=NR%3?OFS:RS' myFile
pr -a -3 -t -s' ' myFile

# 3  
Old 08-16-2006
Also

Code:
paste -d ' ' - - - < infile

Cheers
ZB
 
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