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Old 06-19-2012
split string
I am trying to get some data from a file and print it on the same line.
I have a script that gets the body of emails and display it, but i want it to display each emails body in one line no matter how big it is. eg

insted of this

Code:
email1: bla bla bla
bla bla bla
bal
email2: bla bla bla bal
bla bla bal

i want it to print

Code:
email1: bla bla bal bal bal bal
email2: bla bal bla blalba bla bla

the code i used to print the body is
Code:
awk '/Content-Type/{p=1;c++;print "Email-",c;}/Date/{p=0}p' file

Thank You!
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-19-2012 at 07:23 AM.. Reason: code tags also for data
# 2  
Old 06-19-2012
what is your full input ?
# 3  
Old 06-19-2012
Just changing your awk program a bit:

Code:
awk '/Content-Type/{p=1;c++;printf("\n%s%s ","Email-",c);}/Date/{p=0}p{printf("%s ",$0)} END{print}' file

# 4  
Old 06-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by ygemici
what is your full input ?
Do you mean the actual body?

---------- Post updated at 09:00 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:51 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by elixir_sinari
Just changing your awk program a bit:

Code:
awk '/Content-Type/{p=1;c++;printf("\n%s%s ","Email-",c);}/Date/{p=0}p{printf("%s ",$0)} END{print}' file

It is not printing the emails one after another line by line? it is still breaking the long emails.

thanks
# 5  
Old 06-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by maddog21
It is not printing the emails one after another line by line? it is still breaking the long emails.
thanks
Sigh....Smilie why didn't I ask for the input before?

Please provide the input..
# 6  
Old 06-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by elixir_sinari
Sigh....Smilie why didn't I ask for the input before?

Please provide the input..

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# 7  
Old 06-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by maddog21
Do you mean the actual body?

---------- Post updated at 09:00 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:51 PM ----------



It is not printing the emails one after another line by line? it is still breaking the long emails.

thanks
like this ?
Code:
# cat file
Date:
From:
Subject:
To:
Content-Type:
---body --1-2-
-----3----
-----4----
-----5----
Date:
From:
Subject:
To:
Content-Type:
----body --6 7---
----8---
----9---
Date:
From:

Code:
# awk '/Content-Type/{while(getline){if($0~/Date/)break;x=x?x" "$0:$0}print "email",++i,": " x;x=""}' file
email 1 : ---body --1-2- -----3---- -----4---- -----5----
email 2 : ----body --6 7--- ----8--- ----9---
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