Shell Programming and Scripting

awk ' {if(length(old)>0 && index("* * *", $0) > 0) 
            {print old; old=$0; next}
        old=old $0 
        } 
        END{ print old} ' logfile > newfile

#!/usr/bin/env python
data=[i for i in open("file").read().split("***") if i != ""]
for item in data:
    print "***" + item.replace("\n","").strip()

# ./test.py
***ALARM 711 A1/BTS "MAD08B1 08ACPA0"U 090604 1040RADIO X-CEIVER ADMINISTRATIONBTS EXTERNAL FAULTMO RSITE CLASSRXOCF-59 MD2026 1EXTERNAL ALARMTEMPERATURA ALTAAIRE CONDICIONA
***ALARM 710 A1/BTS "MAD08B1 08ACPA0"U 090604 1040RADIO X-CEIVER ADMINISTRATIONBTS EXTERNAL FAULTMO RSITE CLASSRXOCF-97 MD2059 1EXTERNAL ALARMFUEGOTEMPERATURA BAJA

while(<DATA>){
	chomp;
	if (/\*{3}/ && $.!=1){
		print "\n";
	}
	print $_," ";
}
__DATA__
*** ALARM 711 A1/BTS "MAD08B1 08ACPA0"U 090604 1040
RADIO X-CEIVER ADMINISTRATION
BTS EXTERNAL FAULT

MO RSITE CLASS
RXOCF-59 MD2026 1

EXTERNAL ALARM
TEMPERATURA ALTA
AIRE CONDICIONA 
*** ALARM 710 A1/BTS "MAD08B1 08ACPA0"U 090604 1040
RADIO X-CEIVER ADMINISTRATION
BTS EXTERNAL FAULT

MO RSITE CLASS
RXOCF-97 MD2059 1

EXTERNAL ALARM
FUEGO
TEMPERATURA BAJA

 
cat inputfile.txt | tr "\n" " " | awk '{ print $0"\n" }' | sed 's/ \*\*\*/\
\*\*\*/g'