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Hi, looks like your environment is so different with me.
For your code, I find that once $_=<> executed, the very first line would be deleted.
So may you try this?
perl -pi.orig -e '$/=undef;...

Using builtins only on OSX 10.7.5 default shell...

There may well be a much better method using builtins but this works
and is a starting point.

I appended "sample.txt" 3 times with a newline...

Since you're running on Windows, it may be that your input file's lines are terminated by a carriage return character and a newline character. Since awk is expecting just newline as the line...

There are also (single) quoting issues with awk on Windows, I seem to recall. He may need to run it as
awk "{while(NF<12){getline p; \$0=\$0 p}}1" FS=, OFS=, file or something or put the script in a...

Given a file like this:


$
$ cat -v f8
ABC^M^M^M
DEF
GHI^M
JKL
MNO^M^M
PQR
STU^M^M^M^M^M^M^M
VWX^M^M^M^M
YZ
$
I shall assume that you want to remove to:
(a) remove "^M"s
(b) join...

You are correct durde. thats how my file looks. in your code how can i specify the input file and output file?

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Try this...


#!/bin/bash

incom=0
while read line
do
if [ $incom -eq 1 ]; then
incom=0
printf "%s%s\n" "$data" "$line"
data=""
continue
fi

grep ",$" <<<$line...