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Hey chebarbudo,

Yes, that worked as well.


cat /myfiles/test.cob | sed -n "/MOVE '[^']*' TO VAR[12]/p" | sed "/1$/N; s/MOVE '\([^']*\)' TO VAR1\nMOVE '\([^']*\)' TO VAR2/\1\2/"
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Hey Jim,

Thanks, that is really close; I'm getting the output below. How can I print a new line instead of the second grep output (i.e. 'MOVE LIT2 TO VAR2') and a new line?


LIT1LIT2MOVE...

I'm trying to parse COBOL code to combine variables into one string. I have two variable names that get literals moved into them and I'd like to use sed, awk, or similar to find these lines and...