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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Swapping lines Post 303027807 by Kibou on Tuesday 25th of December 2018 06:33:38 AM
Old 12-25-2018
Swapping lines
Hi there,

I have a text that I'm trying to format into something more readable. However, I'm stuck in the last step. I've searched and tried things over the internet with no avail.

OS: Mac

After parsing the original text that I won't put here, I managed to get something like this, but this isn't what I need yet.

Code:
1 [date]
2 [Comments]
3 [X says:]

The problem is that this text is kind of upside down.

Desired output:

Code:
1 [X says:]
2 [Comments]
3 [date]

What I've tried so far is embarrassing ..

awk '/says:/ {NR>2;c=$0;print c,NR-2}' file
This won't work. I've tried many others examples on the internet but they didn't work and I quite didn't understand them either.

An original sample file input would be:

Code:
2018-09-09T14:40:18.161Z
Hello
Pat says:

2018-09-09T14:40:29.813Z
How are you doing?
Pat says:

2018-09-09T14:40:46.808Z
I don't like it today.
Pat says:

2018-09-09T14:45:43.886Z
I wish I could go home.
Pat says:

2018-09-09T14:46:14.643Z
Could you help me?
Pat says:

2018-09-09T15:38:41.817Z
I can't.
Mark says:

The desired output should be something like:
Code:
Pat says:
Hello
2018-09-09T14:40:18.161Z

Pat says:
How are you doing?
2018-09-09T14:40:29.813Z

Pat says:
I don't like it today.
2018-09-09T14:40:46.808Z

Pat says:
I wish I could go home.
2018-09-09T14:45:43.886Z

Pat says:
Could you help me?
2018-09-09T14:46:14.643Z

Mark says:
I can't.
2018-09-09T15:38:41.817Z

This is the log of a conversation that I need to convert into a decent, readable form for others. Anyways, any help is much appreciated.
Last edited by RudiC; 12-25-2018 at 06:36 PM.. Reason: Corrected ICODE tags
 

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PKEYPARAM(1SSL) 						      OpenSSL							   PKEYPARAM(1SSL)

NAME

       openssl-pkeyparam, pkeyparam - public key algorithm parameter processing tool

SYNOPSIS

       openssl pkeyparam [-help] [-in filename] [-out filename] [-text] [-noout] [-engine id] [-check]

DESCRIPTION

       The pkeyparam command processes public key algorithm parameters.  They can be checked for correctness and their components printed out.

OPTIONS

       -help
	   Print out a usage message.

       -in filename
	   This specifies the input filename to read parameters from or standard input if this option is not specified.

       -out filename
	   This specifies the output filename to write parameters to or standard output if this option is not specified.

       -text
	   Prints out the parameters in plain text in addition to the encoded version.

       -noout
	   Do not output the encoded version of the parameters.

       -engine id
	   Specifying an engine (by its unique id string) will cause pkeyparam to attempt to obtain a functional reference to the specified
	   engine, thus initialising it if needed. The engine will then be set as the default for all available algorithms.

       -check
	   This option checks the correctness of parameters.

EXAMPLE

       Print out text version of parameters:

	openssl pkeyparam -in param.pem -text

NOTES

       There are no -inform or -outform options for this command because only PEM format is supported because the key type is determined by the
       PEM headers.

SEE ALSO

       genpkey(1), rsa(1), pkcs8(1), dsa(1), genrsa(1), gendsa(1)

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