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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copy/Paste in Vi editor Post 302380169 by dennis.jacob on Monday 14th of December 2009 12:55:48 PM
Old 12-14-2009
It is not easy to do in vi, but you can make use of tools such as awk.

Try:

Code:
cat file | xargs -n1 | awk '!/[A-Z]/ {A[++i]=$0; } /[A-Z]/ { print $0 A[++j] }'  >out_file

or

Code:
awk 'NF>1 { for (x=1;x<=NF;x++) A[++i]=$x } /[A-Z]/ { print $0 A[++j] }' < file >out_file

Output:
Code:
cat out_file
A=1.491331
B=122.168
C=1.143
D=1.539000
E=105.633
F=-119.191
G=1.235793
H=121.142
I=-67.765

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Last edited by dennis.jacob; 12-14-2009 at 01:59 PM.. Reason: Modified for better readability
 

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       You can translate both text and web pages. Some translators don't support both modes so it may happen that your preferred translator is not
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       You can tune all FreeSpeak settings in the preferences dialog.

       Copy to clipboard
	      Copy the translated data to the clipboard once the translation is complete.

       Paste from clipboard
	      Paste data to be translated, from the clipboard to the GUI. This only happens when you open a new translation.  If you are trying to
	      perform a web page translation and the clipboard is not holding a valid URL, FreeSpeak is not going to paste it in the URL entry.

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