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Old 05-14-2013
Grep:pipe delimited output
Hi,

I am trying to search for a string in a file and print all the matched lines as pipe delimited format.

My command is

Code:
cat m_gid_trans.XML|grep -i '<TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name"'

The output I am getting is

Code:
 <TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name" VALUE ="PMCacheDir"/>
        <TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name" VALUE ="$PMCacheDir"/>
            <TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name" VALUE ="$PMCacheDir"/>
            <TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name" VALUE ="/gid/Cache"/>
            <TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name" VALUE ="$PMCacheDir"/>
            <TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name" VALUE ="$PMCacheDir"/>

My desired output is something like
Code:
<TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name" VALUE ="$PMCacheDir"/>|<TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name" VALUE ="$PMCacheDir"/>

I tried to put
Code:
sed -e :a -e 'N;s/\n/|/; ta'

at the end of the command and run, but it did not show any result.

Please help,
Thanks
# 2  
Old 05-14-2013
Try in Awk
Code:
 
 awk 'BEGIN{ORS="|"}/TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name"/' input_file

You can make use
Code:
grep -i '<TABLEATTRIBUTE NAME ="Lookup cache directory name"' input_file |  tr "\n" "|"

for desire o/p
Last edited by posix; 05-14-2013 at 09:48 AM..
# 3  
Old 05-14-2013
It says
Quote:
<TABLEAT...' too long
---------- Post updated at 07:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:49 AM ----------

tr "\n" "|" is printing only the firstsearch
# 4  
Old 05-14-2013
Code:
paste -sd\| -

Regards,
Alister
# 5  
Old 05-14-2013
is there a way, that we can achieve this with sed?...I am sorry, am weak in UNIX
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