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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How do I create an array from a file using every 3rd line Post 302339909 by edidataguy on Saturday 1st of August 2009 12:33:56 AM
Old 08-01-2009
Try this and see if you can modify it to your requirement:
Code:
sed 'N;N;N;N;N;s/\n/\t\t/gp' file

FYI: You put your data / input / output etc also between [CODE]
This will make it easy to read.

---------- Post updated at 11:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:27 PM ----------

This works, but not the best way.
Lets see if any one else comes up with a better one.
Code:
sed  '/ceName:.*/d; s/^[^:]*: //' 3rdline.txt | sed 'N;N;N;s/\n/\t/g; s/\(^[^\t]*\t[^\t]*\t\)[^\t]*\t\([^\t]*\)$/\1\2/'

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       Output  fixed-size  pieces  of  INPUT  to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default PREFIX is `x'.  With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard
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       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -a, --suffix-length=N
	      use suffixes of length N (default 2)

       -b, --bytes=SIZE
	      put SIZE bytes per output file

       -C, --line-bytes=SIZE
	      put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file

       -l, --lines=NUMBER
	      put NUMBER lines per output file

       --verbose
	      print a diagnostic to standard error just before each output file is opened

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