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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Joining lines in a text file using AWK or SED Post 302493250 by huskie69 on Wednesday 2nd of February 2011 11:41:28 AM
Old 02-02-2011
Ahhh - I've managed to do it using the 'paste' program bundled with coreutils Smilie

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
What should be the desired output of the given text file?
Ah - I was missing one vital piece of information for you guys! The desired out put was:

Code:
DELL1427,DOC,30189342,79

I've managed to do it using a combination of paste and sed Smilie
 

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PASTE(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          PASTE(1)

NAME
paste - merge lines of files SYNOPSIS
paste [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Write lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -d, --delimiters=LIST reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs -s, --serial paste one file at a time instead of in parallel -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report paste translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/paste> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) paste invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 PASTE(1)
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