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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Append line that does not contain pipe to it previous line Post 302257046 by radoulov on Tuesday 11th of November 2008 08:46:39 AM
Old 11-11-2008
Did you try a tab separated fields?

Code:
 awk -F\| '$1=$1' OFS='\t' infile

 

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NAME
fghack - is an anti-backgrounding tool. SYNOPSIS
fghack child DESCRIPTION
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