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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Merge lines in text file based on pattern Post 302391352 by danmero on Monday 1st of February 2010 05:28:35 AM
Old 02-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertik
So, if the txt file looks like this before processing:
Code:
Word|1
(1)|Wordel|One Word
Eye|4
(1)|Human Eye|Animal Eye
(2)|My Eye|Your Eye|His Eye|Her Eye
(3)|Second Eye|Third Eye
(4)|So Much About Eye

I need it look like this after processing:
Code:
Word|Wordel|One Word
Eye|Human Eye|Animal Eye|My Eye|Your Eye|His Eye|Her Eye|Second Eye|Third Eye|So Much About Eye

Could somebody help me with this please?
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}/^[A-Z]/{printf (NR==1?_:RS)$1;next}{$1=_;printf}' infile

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

eog

eog(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            eog(1)

NAME

       eog - GNOME image viewer

SYNOPSIS

       eog [gnome-std-options] filename [filename2...]

DESCRIPTION

       The eog application is an image viewer for GNOME. The specified image files  are each displayed in a separate eog window.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       filename        The name of the image file to be viewed.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching the GNOME image viewer

       example% eog

       Example 2: Opening the image file test.gif in GNOME image viewer

       example% eog test.gif

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        Application exited successfully

       >0       Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/eog            Executable for GNOME image viewer. eog stands for "Eye Of GNOME".

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWgnome-image-viewer       |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability          |External                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Eye of GNOME Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10                                                          2 Oct 2003                                                              eog(1)
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