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-bash-3.00$ awk 'NR%2{s=$0 ",";next}{print s $0}' infile>outfile
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

no good

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That's only giving me:

,2nd line
,4th line
,6th line
...

I need:

1st line,2nd line
3rd line,4th line
5th line,6th line


Thanks for the quick response

I need to take one column of data and put it into the following format:

1st line,2nd line
3rd line,4th line
5th line,6th line
...

Thanks!

Looks great so far. I'm just going to verify the data against something else. Thanks for the quick reply!

Where do I specify the input and output filenames?

I need to take the second column of a .csv file and count the number of instances of each unique value in that same second column. I'd like the output to be value,count sorted by most instances....