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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Multi line document to single lines based on occurance of string Post 302488940 by rdcwayx on Tuesday 18th of January 2011 10:42:30 PM
Old 01-18-2011
If the records are always by 8 columns. Here is a simple command.

Code:
xargs -n8 < infile

or by awk:

Code:
awk '{gsub(/dwh/,"\ndwh")}1' infile

 

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