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Old 11-26-2012
Merge multiple lines in same file with common key using awk

I've been a Unix admin for nearly 30 years and never learned AWK. I've seen several similar posts here, but haven't been able to adapt the answers to my situation. AWK is so damn cryptic! Smilie

I have a single file with ~900 lines (CSV list). Each line starts with an ID, but with different stuff after it which I want to merge onto a single line. Sometimes there are just a couple of lines to be merge, sometimes there are 4 or 5. The input file is already sorted.
Here's an example:

Code:
2,"URL","website","aaa.com"
2,"abc","text","some text"
2,"Password","password","12345678"
3,"URL","website","10.0.10.75"
3,"uname","text","some text"
3,"Password","password","password"
3,"ulang","text","some text"
4,"URL","website","192.168.2.110"
4,"Login","login","admin"
4,"Password","password","blah-blah"

Output should look like:

Code:
2,"URL","website","aaa.com","abc","text","some text",Password","password","12345678"
3,"URL","website","10.0.10.75","uname","text","some text""Password","password","password","ulang","text","some text"

---------- Post updated at 12:22 AM ---------- Previous update was at 12:11 AM ----------

I forgot to mention, each line in the input file only has 4 fields.
 

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urlcoding is a collection of functions that convert ASCII-text to standard URL's and vice-versa. The AWK code used is based on code by Heiner Steven <heiner.steven@odn.de> The function list: urlEncodeString Creates a URL from an ASCII string urlEncodeFile Converts a file into URL-valid text urlEncodeStream Converts standard input into URL-valid text urlDecodeString Converts a URL-encoded text back to a plain-text form urlDecodeFile Coverts URL-encoded text in a file back to plain text urlDecodeStream Converts URL-encoded standard input to text Detailed interface description follows. The [-l] option for the encoding functions should be used when line-feed characters (' ') are to be encoded as well. All functions print the results of their conversions to standard output. The exit status of all functions is that of the command 'awk', with '0' for success FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
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