Shell Programming and Scripting

$> cat infile
^field LINE_1    This is all your text A
^field LINE_2    This is all your text B
^field LINE_3    This is all your text C
$> awk '{$3=RS $3; print}' infile
^field LINE_1
This is all your text A
^field LINE_2
This is all your text B
^field LINE_3
This is all your text C

$> awk '{$3=RS "\t"$3; print}' infile
^field LINE_22

^field LINE_23
        BILLING CREDIT AVAILABLE PAST DUE MINIMUM TOTAL DUE
^field LINE_24
        DATE LIMIT CREDIT PAYMENT
^field LINE_25
        00-00-00 0 0 .00 .00 .00
^field LINE_26
        00-00-00 0 0 .00 .00 .00

sed 's/LINE_[0-9][0-9]*/&\n/'

nawk '{match($0,"^[^"FS"]+"FS"+[^"FS"]+");print substr($0,1,RLENGTH) RS substr($0,RSTART+RLENGTH)}' myFile