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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Multiple lines into a single line on Ubuntu 10.04 Post 302464654 by RickyC9999 on Wednesday 20th of October 2010 04:28:10 PM
Old 10-20-2010
It's true if i execute the command with mawk it works, but if i use awk it doesn't.

One more thing the command should join all lines between the separator into one, and instead is creating 2 lines any idea why.

Source File:
Code:
-------
2010-10-18;10:55:50;AV;0594  
F0594
Windows NT Versi¢n 4.0  
lun 18/10/2010 
10.55 
-------
2010-10-18;10:55:56;AV;0591  
F0591
Windows NT Versi¢n 4.0  
lun 18/10/2010 
10.55 
-------

Current output
Code:
(mawk 'END{print _}/^-/{if(_)print _;_=$0;next}{_=_";"$0}' infile)

-------;2010-10-18;10:55:50;AV;0594 
;F0594;Windows NT Versi¢n 4.0  ;lun 18/10/2010 ;10.55 
-------;2010-10-18;10:55:56;AV;0591 
;F0591;Windows NT Versi¢n 4.0  ;lun 18/10/2010 ;10.55

Desired output (single row):
Code:
-------;2010-10-18;10:55:50;AV;0594 ;F0594;Windows NT Versi¢n 4.0  ;lun 18/10/2010 ;10.55

Thanks for the help
Last edited by Scott; 10-20-2010 at 05:42 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
 

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