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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Newline between unequal record fields Post 302780521 by Yoda on Thursday 14th of March 2013 03:32:00 PM
Old 03-14-2013
If you are interested, here is a solution using bash:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

while read line
do
        for c_num in $line
        do
                [[ "$c_num" == "$p_num" ]] && printf "%s " $c_num || printf "\n%s " $c_num
                p_num="$c_num"
        done
done < file
printf "\n"

Last edited by Yoda; 03-14-2013 at 04:44 PM.. Reason: correction
 

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