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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Merging two lines into one (awk) Post 303039771 by RudiC on Tuesday 15th of October 2019 04:18:32 AM
Old 10-15-2019
Try also (your code simplified):
Code:
awk 'length==80 {ORS=""} 1; {ORS=RS}' file

or
Code:
awk '{ORS=length==80?"":RS} 1' file

Your first attempt doesn't work as expected as ORS is never reset to RS, as you'll never enter the statement with an empty $0.
Your second will never set ORS to "" as /.../ denotes an RE string, and the string "$0" is not matched within the line $0.
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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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