Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I need your help on a multiple row entry into different columns. And do the same with all the entries in file.

File example (showing 2 entries only, there are many like these):

Code:

>ABC
*
AGA-AUUCUC-CGGUUCAAUCU
|||
UCUAUAACCGCGCCGAGUUAGU

>ABC
*
AGAUAU-GCUGCAGGCUCAAUUG
||||||
UCUAUAACCGCG-CCGAGUUAGU

File required:

Code:

>ABC AGA-AUUCUC-CGGUUCAAUCU UCUAUAACCGCGCCGAGUUAGU
>ABC AGAUAU-GCUGCAGGCUCAAUUG UCUAUAACCGCG-CCGAGUUAGU

I am able to convert single entry into required format by:

But don't know how to do it with all entries by reading whole file.

Please help me with the code-required urgently

AK

Code:

cat infile  | xargs -n 5 | awk '{$2=""; $4=""; print}'

Or maybe with:

Code:

awk '/^>/{f=3}/[A-Z]/{f--;printf("%s%s",$0, f?FS:RS)}' file