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# 8  
Old 11-15-2009
Hi Ahmad, scottn's code works well. In your example you left out the double quotes after the second DESCRIPTION, which are part of the format.
# 9  
Old 11-15-2009
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Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Hi Ahmad, scottn's code works well. In your eaxmple you omitted the double quotes after the second DESCRIPTION, which are part of the format.
You are right man my bad SmilieSmilieSmilie
# 10  
Old 11-15-2009
many many thanks to everyone that replied, the first bit of code I tried worked a treat, so stuck with that for the moment:

Code:
awk '
  { $1 = $1 }
  /DESCRIPTION/ { p=" "; next }
  p { p=p" "$0; if (/"$/) {gsub(/ *"/,"",p); print p;p=""}}
' infile

I'll be looking through the rest of the given examples too - it's definitley a useful skill to have. You guys are a real lifesaver!
# 11  
Old 11-16-2009
Hammer & Screwdriver
Quote:
Originally Posted by badoshi
You guys are a real lifesaver!
Wow, I didn't realize hospitals were using SNMP in their cardio defibrilators!
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