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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with a Flat File!!! Post 302120743 by Ygor on Thursday 7th of June 2007 11:15:14 PM
Old 06-08-2007
Try..
Code:
nawk -F'|' 'b&&NF>1{print b}NF==1{b=b $0}NF>1{b=$0}END{print b}' file1 > file2

 

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