Shell Programming and Scripting

Could you post a more representative sample of STD_H.txt, anonymized if need be?

Issue Resolved

first added "" at the end of each line in the file using

Code:

/usr/xpg4/bin/sed 's/$/""/g' $file >file2

this basically avoids all too long records. As every line now has atleast 2 records, if " is considered as a Record selector.

Then executed:

Code:

/usr/xpg4/bin/awk '(NR-1)%2{$1=$1}1' RS=\" ORS=\" file2 > file3

A \n was missing in the EOF as record selector was " and not \n. Remove the last line and appended a \n at the EOF using:

Code:

printf %s\\n d w q | ed -s file3

And Finally Replaced All "" with a blankspace using

Code:

/usr/xpg4/bin/sed 's/""/ /g' file3 > file4

I Actually didn't create file2 and file3 just used a pipe

Code:

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instead. Just gave it here to be more clear. Had to create file4 as -i option is not present in

Code:

/usr/xpg4/bin/sed

Any Suggestions to make it simpler ?

Regards,
Ajay