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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to fix line breaks format text for huge files? Post 302589616 by kikionline on Thursday 12th of January 2012 10:52:35 AM
Old 01-12-2012
This code works great... thanks a lot Archimedes!

---------- Post updated at 09:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:03 AM ----------

Hi Archimedes,

At the first look, I could not find out the flaw in the output. Actually, it is entirely removing the broken line. However, my requirement is that the broken line should be appended to the end of the last line after a space.

As for example, if the input file is like...
Code:
HEADER474687
D1356jkl ugbliuybikb 879870
898976098 9687680
D77656757 uhgliug liygoiygig
D98679hjh kjbgihguygfu ugliyh
kbygfluy9809
D8796870 kjlhuigiyig
TRAILER0008

The output should be..
Code:
HEADER474687
D1356jkl ugbliuybikb 879870 898976098 9687680
D77656757 uhgliug liygoiygig
D98679hjh kjbgihguygfu ugliyh kbygfluy9809
D8796870 kjlhuigiyig
TRAILER0008

However, with the awk code, it is giving me...
Code:
HEADER474687
D1356jkl ugbliuybikb 879870
D77656757 uhgliug liygoiygig
D98679hjh kjbgihguygfu ugliyh
D8796870 kjlhuigiyig
TRAILER0008

---------- Post updated at 11:47 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:18 AM ----------

---------- Post updated at 11:52 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:47 AM ----------

Hi Birei,
I was just curious to see if your sed script was not working in ksh shell alone. So I tried it in Bash shell and boom - it's just perfect!
In that case, i guess it should be my ksh shell which is throwing this sed: command garbled error.

Wondering if there is any other way to code the same sed script in ksh... Smilie
 

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