Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

script to merge multiple line

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting script to merge multiple line
# 8  
Old 04-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by wildhorse
another problem............

For small text file it [ perl script ] is working properly. but for large file [more than 1M text] it is not working at all. Is there any other way using linux command? Thanks in advance.
Have you tried the solution of malcomex999?

Another one:
Code:
awk '/#$/{printf $0;next}1' file

# 9  
Old 04-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by malcomex999
It just checks if $0 contains # at the end of the line, if so, it prints the line or else it prints the line and a new line(with the help of printf in formatting).
thanks a lot, now i understand that it uses ternary operator Smilie
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Merge multi-lines into one single line using shell script or Linux command

Hi, Can anyone help me for merge the following multi-line log which beginning with a " and line ending with ": into one line. *****Original Log***** 087;2008-12-06;084403;"mc;;SYHLR6AP1D\LNZW;AD-703;1;12475;SYHLR6AP1B;1.1.1.1;0000000062;HGPDI:MSISDN=12345678,APNID=1,EQOSID=365;... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rajeshlinux2010
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Merge multiple lines into a single line

Hi all, I'm relatively new to scripting, I can do pretty basic things. I have a daily log file that looks like: timestamp=2017-06-28-01.01.35.080576; event status=0; userid=user1; authid=user1; application id=10.10.10.10.11111.12345678901; application name=GUI; ... (29 Replies)
Discussion started by: dwdnet
29 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Merge multiple lines in one line

Hi guys, So i have a input file with several sequences aligned (fasta) >NC_005930 241 bp MNMINIFIINNIFDQFIPVKLSIFSLTSVGSIIA LSWVWINTKTHWAISRSNTP-SLLLNSL WTLLITNL-NEKTNPWAPWLFSLFLLCFSFNIMSLI-PYTF-SQ TSHLSFTFGLSLPIWIMVNIAGFKNNWKKKISHLLPQGTPIYLVPVMII IETISLFIQPLTLGFRLGANLLAGHLLIFLCSCTIWE... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: andreia
6 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Merge multiple lines to one line when line starts with and ends with

example: comment Now_TB.table column errac is for error messages 1 - first 2 - second 3 -third ; in this example I need to be able to grab the comment as first word and ; as the last word and it might span a few lines. I need it to be put all in one line without line breaks so I can... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: wambli
4 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell script to read multiple options from file, line by line

Hi all I have spent half a day trying to create a shell script which reads a configuration file on a line by line basis. The idea of the file is that each will contain server information, such as IP address and various port numbers. The line could also be blank (The file is user created). Here... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: haggismn
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Merge multi-line output into a single line

Hello I did do a search and the past threads doesn't really solve my issue. (using various awk commands) I need to combine the output from java -version into 1 line, but I am having difficulties. When you exec java -version, you get: java version "1.5.0_06" Java(TM) 2 Runtime... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: flagman5
5 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

merge files based on line by line

Hi, lets assume the following details.. file 1 has below details abc|1234|xyz abc1|1234|xyz1 abc2|1234|xyz2 and file 2 has below details pqr|124|lskd ebwer|325|dfb wf|234|sdb I need out put shown below abc|1234|xyz pqr|124|lskd abc1|1234|xyz1 ebwer|325|dfb abc2|1234|xyz2... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: alnhk
4 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to use Perl to merge multi-line into single line

Hi, Can anyone know how to use perl to merge the following multi-line information which beginning with "BAM" into one line. For each line need to delete the return and add a space. Please see the red color line. ******Org. Multi-line) BAM admin 101.203.57.22 ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: happyday
3 Replies

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Merge multiple .so files

Hi all, I am developing an application in Tcl, inwhich i have to load many modules written in C. I am converting those C modules into shared object(.so) files, and wrap it with my application using SWIG, for which i had the interface file. Now my question is, i have two different... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: senthilvnr
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Removing end of line to merge multiple lines

I'm sure this will be an easy question for you experts out there, but I have been searching the forum and working on this for a couple hours now and can't get it right. I have a very messy data file that I am trying to tidy up - one of the issues is some records are split into multiple lines: ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: tink
4 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question