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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting convert fields on each line to one line Post 302672593 by alister on Monday 16th of July 2012 03:30:14 PM
Old 07-16-2012
Have a look at the paste man page. It can do this for you (including handling empty fields/lines). If you need further help, just let us know what you don't understand about what you read and the command you tried.

Hint: You will need to use - multiple times to read from standard input.

Regards,
Alister
 

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