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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Manipulate lines with sed/awk Post 302329902 by Franklin52 on Monday 29th of June 2009 04:27:00 PM
Old 06-29-2009
Should be something like this:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN{s="# -\n# -\n# -\n# -\n# -@@@-@@@-@@@-@@@-@@@-@@@-@@@-@@@-@@@-"}
/}/{print a[1] " {" a[3] "\n" a[4] "\n" a[2] "}\n" s; i=0; next}
{a[++i]=$0}
' file > newfile

 

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SLUGIMAGE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      SLUGIMAGE(1)

NAME
slugimage - Manipulate NSLU2 firmware images SYNOPSIS
slugimage [-p|-u] [options] DESCRIPTION
slugimage can be used to create or unpack NSLU2 firmware images. OPTIONS
-d, --debug Turn on debugging output -q, --quiet Turn off status messages -u, --unpack Unpack a firmware image -p, --pack Pack a firmware image -l, --little Convert Kernel and Ramdisk to little-endian -i, --input Input firmware image filename -o, --output Output firmware image filename -b, --redboot Input/Output RedBoot filename -k, --kernel Input/Ouptut Kernel filename -s, --sysconf Input/Output SysConf filename -r, --ramdisk Input/Output Ramdisk filename(s) -f, --fisdir Input/Output FIS directory filename -y, --payload Input/Output Payload filename -t, --trailer Input/Output Trailer filename -e, --ethaddr Set the Ethernet address AUTHOR
This man page was written by Joey Hess, <joey@kitenet.net>. SLUGIMAGE(1)
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