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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Merging two lines into one (awk) Post 303039758 by sand1234 on Monday 14th of October 2019 08:16:37 PM
Old 10-14-2019
Merging two lines into one (awk)
Hi,

I am attempting to merge the following lines which run over two lines using awk.

INITIAL OUTPUT

Code:
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interfa
ce Ethernet1/45 is down (Interface removed)
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interfa
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interfa
ce Ethernet1/46 is down (Interface removed)
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.702 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time

EXPECTED OUTPUT

Code:
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interface Ethernet1/45 is down (Interface removed)
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interfa
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interface Ethernet1/46 is down (Interface removed)
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.702 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time

Attempts:

Code:
$ awk 'length==80{ORS=$0?"":RS}1' unwrap.txt
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interface Ethernet1/45 is down (Interface removed)2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interface Ethernet1/46 is down (Interface removed)2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.702 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time

$ awk 'length==80{ORS=/$0/?"":RS}1' unwrap.txt
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.695 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interfa
ce Ethernet1/45 is down (Interface removed)
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.699 hkaet9612 %ETHPORT-5-IF_DOWN_INTERFACE_REMOVED: Interfa
ce Ethernet1/46 is down (Interface removed)
2019 Sep 28 10:47:24.702 hkaet9612 last message repeated 1 time

Can I please get some assistance around why this is not working?

Thanks.
Last edited by sand1234; 10-15-2019 at 09:34 AM..
 

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