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Old 07-15-2005
Combining multiple lines
I am fairly new to scripting. But I have been able to extract and format all of my information required into one file. My issue is that one character is on a separate line. I need to be able to add the character to the previous line.

ex.

abcdefghi
1
bcdefghij
3
cdefghijk
4

need to look like

abcdefghi1
bcdefghij3
cdefghijk4


Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
# 2  
Old 07-15-2005
paste -d'\0' - - < myFile
Last edited by vgersh99; 07-15-2005 at 10:29 AM..
# 3  
Old 07-15-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
paste -d'\0' - - < myFile
final word. how fun *nix is! i like it.

the normal way is like this Smilie
Code:
sed '$!N;s/\n//'

# 4  
Old 07-15-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by r2007
final word. how fun *nix is! i like it.

the normal way is like this Smilie
Code:
sed '$!N;s/\n//'

this cat can be skinned dozen different ways and therefore there's nothing 'final/normal' about this OS Smilie
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Old 07-15-2005
Thanks worked great
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