Shell Programming and Scripting

The problem is that I louse always the first line and that can't.
I look again to the internet for to find a solution.
But thanks anyway.

What do you mean, you always lose the first line? Can you give an input and output sample?

I try now over thirthy solutions that I find on the internet and nothing do what I want, so I believe I do something very wrong and I don't see it.
This is the input

This is my cat,
her name is betty

this must be the output
This is my cat, her name is betty

When I use awk '/[^[unct:]],*$/{getline $(NF+1)}1' input
than the output is this

her name is betty

when I use awk '/[^[unct:]],*$/{getline $(NF+1)}1' input >output
than the output is this

This is my cat,
her name is betty

Here is only a space in the beginning of the second line.
I don't know it anymore.
But thanks anyway

Can it be that your file is in dos format? Try converting it to unix format first:

Code:

tr -d '\r' < oldfile > newfile

thank you very much Scrutinizer

I don't understand why my other scripts works without converthing but I learn again.