sed: how to move matched pattern to end of previous line
Hello,
I'm new to this forum. I've been doing a lot of sed work lately and have found many useful tips on this forum. I've hit a roadblock in a project, though, and could really use some help.
I have a text file with many lines like the following, i.e., some lines begin with a single word followed by a "<scripRef>" or "<note>" tag:
Code:
Now there is in Jerusalem by
the<scripRef>Neh 3:1</scripRef> sheep <i>gate</i> a pool, which is called
in<scripRef>John 19:13</scripRef>
Hebrew<note>I.e. Jewish Aramaic</note>
Bethesda<note>Some early mss read ...</note>, having five porticoes.
I want to move the words before the "<scripRef>" or "<note>" tags to the end of the previous line (prepending the word with a space), resulting in the following:
Code:
Now there is in Jerusalem by the
<scripRef>Neh 3:1</scripRef> sheep <i>gate</i> a pool, which is called in
<scripRef>John 19:13</scripRef> Hebrew
<note>I.e. Jewish Aramaic</note> Bethesda
<note>Some early mss read ...</note>, having five porticoes.
The word to be moved will consist of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and/or single quotes (').
Can you please help? I am most comfortable with sed, but if awk or perl (or anything else) would be better, that's fine.
$ cat infile
Now there is in Jerusalem by
the<scripRef>Neh 3:1</scripRef> sheep <i>gate</i> a pool, which is called
in<scripRef>John 19:13</scripRef>
Hebrew<note>I.e. Jewish Aramaic</note>
Bethesda<note>Some early mss read ...</note>, having five porticoes.
$ sed -n '$! { /\n/! { N; s/\n\(.*\)\(<scripRef>\|<note>\)/ \1\n\2/; P; D } }; p' infile
Now there is in Jerusalem by the
<scripRef>Neh 3:1</scripRef> sheep <i>gate</i> a pool, which is called in
<scripRef>John 19:13</scripRef> Hebrew
<note>I.e. Jewish Aramaic</note> Bethesda
<note>Some early mss read ...</note>, having five porticoes.
Hello,
I have below format log file,
Comparing csv_converted_files/2201/9747.1012H67126.5077292103609547345.csv and csv_converted_files/22019/97447.1012H67126.5077292103609547345.csv
Comparing csv_converted_files/2559/9447.1012H67126.5077292103609547345.csv and... (6 Replies)
hello everyone,
im new here, and also programming with awk, sed and grep commands on linux.
In my text i have many lines with this config:
1 1 4 3 1 1 2 5
2 2 1 1 1 3 1 2
1 3 1 1 1 2 2 2
5 2 4 1
3 2 1 1 4 1 2 1
1 1 3 2 1 1 5 4
1 3 1 1... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a text data file. My aim here is to find line called *FIELD* AV for every record and print lines after that till *FIELD* RF. But here I want first 3 to four lines for very record as well. FIELD AV is some where in between for very record. SO I am not sure how to retrieve lines in... (2 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I am working with some train time tables, and i have hit a bit of a road block.
Using grep/sed i have done a reasonable job of parsing the html into comma delimited format, but NJ transit prints The Track number and status on a new line, and I would much prefer it all on a... (6 Replies)
I have the following text format in a file which lists the question first and then 5 choices
after that the explanantion and finally the answer.
1.The amount of time it takes for most of a worker’s occupational knowledge and skills to become
obsolete has been declining because of the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a written a shell script to get the previous line based on the pattern.
For example if a file has below lines:
----------------------------------------------
#UNBLOCK_As _per
#As per
205.162.42.92
#BLOCK_As_per
#-----------------------
#input checks
abc.com... (5 Replies)
I am trying to pull certain pieces of data out of a line of a file that matches a certain pattern:
The three pieces that I want to pull out of this line are the only occurrences of that pattern within the line, but the rest of the line is not consistent in each file. Basically the line is... (3 Replies)
This is my first post, please be nice. I have tried to google and read different tutorials.
The task at hand is:
Input file input.txt (example)
abc123defhij-E-1234jslo
456ujs-W-abXjklp
From this file the task is to grep the -E- and -W- strings that are unique and write a new file... (5 Replies)
Hello to all,
On aix, I want to identify a term on a line in a file and then add a word at the end of the line identified. I do not want the word to be added when the line contains the symbol "#".
I use the following command, but it deletes the term identified then adds the word.
#sed... (4 Replies)
01-01-2012
