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Old 07-06-2010
delete new line character ( - ) , korn shell
Hi guys , i need help so bad on this issue..

Basically i have to delete the line continuation symbol of first column variable and add the truncated part of that word in next line to first line.
here i written sample 3 lines but originally i have bunch of lines in that file.

client1_day- 2010
jan

client2 2009

client3_day- 2008
feb

The resulted lines supposed to be:


client1_dayjan 2010

client2 2009

client3_dayfeb 2008

basically i need to remove any line with newline symbol ( - ) and add the below characters which are supposed to be print in one word.

can u please help me..

thankx in advance

-Chris
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Old 07-06-2010
Code:
awk 'BEGIN { RS="" ; FS="\n" } {gsub(/- /,$2" ",$1); printf "%s\n\n", $1 }' inputFile

# 3  
Old 07-07-2010
Code:
awk -F- 'NF>1{getline x;$0=$1x$2}1' infile

# 4  
Old 07-07-2010
Code:
# cat infile
client1_day- 2010
jan

client2 2009

client3_day- 2008
feb

Code:
# sed '/^client/{N; s/\(.*day\)-\(.*\)\n\(.*\)$/\1\3\2/}' infile
client1_dayjan 2010

client2 2009

client3_dayfeb 2008

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