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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Not sure how to describe it but how to format this list so that it print the 1st field once only Post 303035630 by vgersh99 on Wednesday 29th of May 2019 01:48:01 PM
Old 05-29-2019
how about:
Code:
awk -F'|' '{a[$1]=($1 in a)?a[$1] OFS substr($0,index($0,OFS)+1):substr($0,index($0,OFS)+1)} END {for(i in a) print i, a[i]}' OFS='|' myFile

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dbatbl

DBATBL(1)						      General Commands Manual							 DBATBL(1)

NAME

       dbatbl - Manage on-disk reference tables for DB-ALLe

SYNOPSIS

       dbatbl [command] [options] [args...]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool allows to index and query the tables that are needed for normal functioning of DB-ALLe.

       dbatbl always requires a non-switch argument, that indicates what is the operation that should be performed:

       help
	      Print a help summary.

       help manpage
	      Print this manpage.

       cat tableid [tableid [...]]
	      Output all the contents of a WMO B table..

       grep string
	      Output all the contents of the local B table whose description contains the given string..

       expand table-entry [table-entry [...]]
	      Describe a WMO B table entry or expand a WMO D table entry in its components..

       expandcode varcode [varcode [...]]
	      Expand the value of a packed variable code.

       index [options] filename index-id
	      Index the contents of a table file.

       describe [options] what [values]
	      Invoke the formatter to describe the given values.  Supported so far are: "level ltype l1 l2", "trange pind p1 p2".

OPTIONS

       dbatbl follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').

   Option for command cat
       -?, --help
	      print an help message

       -c, --csv
	      output variables in CSV format

   Option for command grep
       -?, --help
	      print an help message

       -c, --csv
	      output variables in CSV format

   Option for command expand
       -?, --help
	      print an help message

   Option for command expandcode
       -?, --help
	      print an help message

   Option for command index
       -?, --help
	      print an help message

       -t type, --type=type
	      format of the table to index ('b', 'd', 'conv')

   Option for command describe
       -?, --help
	      print an help message

AUTHOR

       dbatbl has been written by Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.com> for ARPA Emilia Romagna, Servizio Idrometeorologico.

								   may 16, 2012 							 DBATBL(1)
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