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Old 03-23-2012
Combining 2 lines in a file into 1 line
Hi all,

I have a file with lot of lines with repeating pattern. ( TABLE_NAME line followed by Total line).
I would like combine these two lines into one line seperated by cama and create a new file. Is there a simple way to do this.

Current Format ( just a sample 4 lines )
Code:
TABLE_NAME: ABC.TABLE1
Total = 59084806
TABLE_NAME: DEF.TABLE1
Total = 13170198

Desired foramat
Code:
TABLE_NAME: ABC.TABLE1,Total = 59084806
TABLE_NAME: DEF.TABLE1,Total = 13170198

Thanks in advance
mkneni
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-24-2012 at 09:17 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
# 2  
Old 03-23-2012
Code:
perl -pe '(/TABLE/) && (s/\n$/,/)' inputfile

Use perl -i -pe .... for in-place editing of file.
# 3  
Old 03-24-2012
you can use awk somthing like:
Code:
awk '/^TABLE/{gsub(\n,\,,$0}' inputfile

.
i have not tested this in shell.
# 4  
Old 03-24-2012
Code:
sed 'N;s/\n/,/' file

# 5  
Old 03-24-2012
awk '{getline x;print $0","x}' infile
# 6  
Old 03-24-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by ctsgnb
awk '{getline x;print $0","x}' infile
Could you please explain how it works?
Thanks
# 7  
Old 03-24-2012
Code:
awk '/TABLE/ && getline $2' FS="\n" OFS=, infile

Code:
awk '/TABLE/{printf "%s,",$0;next}1' infile

Code:
awk 'ORS=/TABLE/?",":RS' infile
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