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Old 06-10-2011
Transposing text using AWK
Well I thought that this would be a fairly straight forward operation but perhaps I'm complicating it more in my mind. I have a simple data.txt file containing candidate information in the following format:
Code:
"ANTONIA ROJAS SALES"	"Feminino"
"13/06/1954"	"Casado(a)"
"Brasileira (naturalizada)"	"CRUZEIRO DO SUL / AC"
"Superior completo"	"Deputado"
"Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro -
"ANTONIO NIZOMAR DOS SANTOS"	"Masculino"
.....

Wanting to transpose each candidate into a *single* row looking like:
Code:
"ANTONIA ROJAS SALES"	"Feminino"	"13/06/1954"	"Casado(a)" Brasileira (naturalizada)"	"CRUZEIRO DO SUL / AC"     "Superior completo"	"Deputado"   "Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro

Current code looks like this:
Code:
awk '{printf "%-15s ", $1}!(NR % 5){printf "\n"}' done.txt

however this only returns the first field, when I want the entire string:
Code:
"ANTONIA        "13/06/1954"    "Brasileira     "Superior       "Partido

Any ideas? Thanks!
Last edited by Franklin52; 06-10-2011 at 02:28 PM.. Reason: adding code tags
# 2  
Old 06-10-2011
Good afternoon (boa tarde), I have a question:
How many fields each "candidate" has?
# 3  
Old 06-10-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by daveyabe
Current code looks like this:
Code:
awk '{printf "%-15s ", $1}!(NR % 5){printf "\n"}' done.txt

however this only returns the first field, when I want the entire string:
Code:
"ANTONIA        "13/06/1954"    "Brasileira     "Superior       "Partido

Any ideas? Thanks!
Code:
awk '{printf "%-15s ", $0}!(NR % 5){printf "\n"}' done.txt

# 4  
Old 06-10-2011
So records are always 5 lines?

Code:
awk '{ printf("%s\t", $0); if((NR%5)==0) printf("\n"); }' < data

# 5  
Old 06-10-2011
Yes, records are always 5 lines.
# 6  
Old 06-10-2011
Here is one possible solution:
Code:
sed 'N;N;N;N;s/\n/ /g' input_file

Good luck (boa sorte).
# 7  
Old 06-10-2011
Actually, I am embarrassed to say this, but I think my console's width was throwing off what I thought the results were...since I've got thousands of records. I began dumping them into a log file and everything looks good. Thanks for all the help guy, much appreciated!
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