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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Concatenate lines between lines starting with a specific pattern Post 302465678 by ctsgnb on Saturday 23rd of October 2010 09:49:03 AM
Old 10-23-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
I know, but I figured it would complicate the code and it would not really matter. I did add the linefeed at the end, otherwise if the output gets written to a file, that last line becomes invalid, since the last line is not terminated with a linefeed..
Code:
awk '{printf />/?((NR>1)?RS:x)"%s"RS:"%s",$0}END{print x}' infile

Dude, you're true, but i like to see your skill in action, that's why i challenged you Smilie
 

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MEWLS(1)						      General Commands Manual							  MEWLS(1)

NAME
mewls - Message scanner for Mew SYNOPSIS
mewls [options] [folder [range]] DESCRIPTION
The mewls utility extracts necessary fields from messages stored in folders. This command is necessary for Mew to implement the asynchro- nous feature. The options are as follows: -a Print all necessary fields when picking. -b dir Set the Mail home to dir. -c dir Set the News home to dir. -d field Set th field to be extracted to field. -e command Specify an external command to fetch mailbox. -m options Specify options for command. -f fields Specify fields to display. -h Display this help message. -i file Set the input stream to file. -l length Set the field max length to be extracted to length. The default value is 3. 0 means no limit. -n Don't use fstat(). -p pattern Specify the pick pattern. -s src Set message source to src : '+folder range'. -w time Set the wait_for timer to timer (microsecond). -v Display the version. Definitions of the symbols above are as follows: range N | [start]-[end] | last:N pattern 'key=val' | 'key!=val' | '!<pattern>' | '(<pattern>)' | '<pattern>&<pattern>' | '<pattern>|<pattern>' BUGS
If a field is long, only the beginning three lines are extracted by default. March 17, 2001 MEWLS(1)
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