Shell Programming and Scripting

Sample input (line feed indicated by [LF])
---------------
The red fox jumped [LF]
over the brown fence of the [LF]
red hous [LF]
[LF]
[LF]
[LF]
He then went into the[LF]
orchard[LF]
[LF]

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Desired Output
---------------
The red fox jumped over the brown fence of the red house
[LF]
He then went into the orchard
[LF]


any input on a sed/awk one liner to achieve this would be immensely helpful

perl:

Code:

undef $/;
open $fh,"<","a.pl";
my $str=<$fh>;
my @arr=split(/\n\n+/,$str);
map {my $t=$_; $t=~s/\n/ /g; print $t,"\n\n";} @arr;

sed:

Code:

sed -n '/^$/ !{
	1{
	h
	}
	1 !{
	H
	}
}
/^$/ {
 x
 /^$/ !{
 	s/\n//g
 	p
 	x
 	p
 	x
 	d
 }
}
${
	x
	/^$/ !{
	 s/\n//g
   p
   d
  }
}' a

cfajohnson, your solution removed all the blank lines......
summer_cherry: I tried playing around with your solution. It came closest to what I am looking for, but I guess my requirements are a little more complicated and I didn't outline them correctly before.

Here's what I have done so far
1> remove all blank lines using sed -e 's/^$//g' file.txt > file1.txt

2> Now I have file in the following format (delimiter indicated by DL, Line Feed by LF)
------------------------
Sample Input
------------------------
[DL]
The fox jumped over the red[LF]
fence into[LF]
the orchard to eat some[LF]
grapes[LF]
[DL]
Then it came back to the[LF]
yard to hunt some[LF]
sheep[LF]
[DL]
The farmer chased[LF]
the fox away[LF]

---------------------
Expected Output
---------------------
[DL]
The fox jumped over the red fence into the orchard to eat some grapes
[DL]
Then it came back to the yard to hunt some sheep
[DL]
The farmer chased the fox away

I am also trying to achieve this output, but I have failed with various sed solutions that I have tried.
-------------------------
SAMPLE INPUT
-------------------------
Name: ABCD
Address: ABCD Road, ABCD City, ABCD State
ZipCode: 0000
Telno: 999-999-9999

Name: EFGH
Address Temp Road, Temp City, Temp State
Telno 999-999-9999

----------------------
EXPECTED OUTPUT
----------------------

Name: ABCD
Address: ABCD Road, ABCD City, ABCD State
ZipCode: 0000
Telno: 999-999-9999

Name: EFGH
Address Temp Road, Temp City, Temp State
ZipCode: <--- This is the new entry
Telno 999-999-9999

Basically, the requirement is to insert a word between two words if the word does not already exist.

Suppose you want to insert the text for the name EFGH:

Code:

awk '/EFGH/{print;getline;print;print "Zipcode:..";next}1'

Regards

No, I don't know for which record I would need to insert the missing field.

I know the order of fields in a record.
So if any field is missing in a record, insert it at an appropriate place in that record.
Do the same for all records.