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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Swapping the 1st 4 lines only Post 302947350 by RavinderSingh13 on Wednesday 17th of June 2015 11:07:30 AM
Old 06-17-2015
Hello invinzin21,

Following is explanation for same code, hope this will be helpful.
Code:
 awk '{if(NR==1 || NR==2 || NR==3 || NR==4){A=A?A ORS $0:$0;next};if(NR==8){print $0 ORS A;} else {print}}'  Input_file
 if(NR==1 || NR==2 || NR==3 || NR==4)  #### Looking for condition if line number is equal to 1 or 2 or 3 or 4
{A=A?A ORS $0:$0;next}                          #### If above condition is TRUE then I am creating a variable which will hold the 
 current line's value with it's previouls value character ? is to perform a action when condition before will be TRUE and : is used to perform action when condition is FALSE.
next                                                         #### After above variable's creation leave next statements and move next
 if(NR==8)                                               #### Looking for condition when line number is 8
{print $0 ORS A;}                                    #### if above condition is TRUE then print the 8th line and print variable A, which has now value of lines from 1 to 4 in it
else                                                         #### Apart of any line pther than 8 it will do simple print operation.

Thanks,
R. Singh

Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 06-17-2015 at 12:13 PM.. Reason: Sorry for aligning not sure why I am always not able to align text properly, may be copying from notepad, sorry for same.
 

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  .ds	  Double space the output. Same as .ls 2.
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  .eh t   Even page header title is set to t.
  .fi	  Begin filling output lines as full as possible.
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