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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparing and Formatting the text file Post 302460854 by rdcwayx on Thursday 7th of October 2010 07:19:40 PM
Old 10-07-2010
Code:
awk '
BEGIN{print "Name |Date|Changes"}
/Name:/    {$1="";n=$0}
/Date:/    {$1="";d=$0} 
/Changes:/ {$1="";c=$0}
/END/      {print n " | " d " | " c;n=d=c=""}
' file1.txt

 

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Date::Calc::XS(3pm)                                     User Contributed Perl Documentation                                    Date::Calc::XS(3pm)

NAME

       Date::Calc::XS - XS wrapper and C library plug-in for Date::Calc

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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SEE ALSO

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VERSION

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