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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting column data to rows every n line Post 302359004 by nxp on Monday 5th of October 2009 01:15:27 PM
Old 10-05-2009
column data to rows every n line

Hi every one,

I am trying to organise an input text file like:

Code:
input
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8
9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 
19 20
 
into an output as following:

output file
 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
 
In fact, the output will have 10 fields and two rows. I have tried the following AWK:
 
awk ' NR%3==0 {print (tr '\n ' ' )}' input>output

but it does not work!

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Last edited by nxp; 10-05-2009 at 02:17 PM.. Reason: Make it better readable
 

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