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---------- Post updated at 05:54 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:38 PM ----------

something to start with...

'len' is a known/expected length of ALL the records (assuming they are of the same length) - defaulted to '73'.

Assumption: there's only ONE extra new-line per 'broken' record.
nawk -f enigma.awk myFile
OR
nawk -v len=63 -f enigma.awk myFile

enigma.awk:

Code:

BEGIN {
  len=(!len)?73:len
}
length < len {
   if (length(s)) { print s OFS $0;s=""}
   else s=$0
   next
}
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