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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Transpose multi-line records into a single row Post 302531440 by danmero on Thursday 16th of June 2011 07:35:59 PM
Old 06-16-2011
Try this one:
Code:
awk 'END{p(x)}func p(x){if(x){print x}}NF{x=(x)?x FS$0:$0}!NF{p(x);x=y}' file

 

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