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Hi below is the input file snippet. here i want that all the line which is coming after 1 shoud be in one line. so for exanple if after 1 there is two lines which is starting with 2 should be combine in one line. input file content 1,8091012,BATCH_1430903_01,21,T,2,808738,,,,21121:87:01,...

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paste

PASTE(1)							   User Commands							  PASTE(1)

NAME

       paste - merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write  lines  consisting  of  the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.  With no FILE, or
       when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -d, --delimiters=LIST
	      reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

       -s, --serial
	      paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report paste bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and paste programs are properly installed  at  your  site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'paste invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							  PASTE(1)

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