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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving line up if line starts with + sign. Post 302804503 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 8th of May 2013 04:50:11 PM
Old 05-08-2013
That will print the newline at the wrong end of the line, that is why it messes up. One way to achieve this might be:
Code:
awk 'NR>1 && !/^\+/{print RS}1 END{print RS}' ORS= file

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NAME
wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Print byte, word, and newline counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. -c, --bytes print the byte counts -m, --chars print the character counts -l, --lines print the newline counts -L, --max-line-length print the length of the longest line -w, --words print the word counts --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for wc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and wc programs are properly installed at your site, the com- mand info wc should give you access to the complete manual. wc (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 WC(1)
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