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Old 04-02-2015
Merge mutiple lines into one based on if the first word is some particular value
Hi,
trying to knock something together to create one line entries based on whether the first word on each line matches a particular value.

eg.

Code:
Link,"Name=""Something\something"","Timeout=""1800""",
"Target=""\\thing\thing\thing""","State=""ONLINE""",something,
"Target=""\\thing\thing\thing""","State=""OFFLINE""",otherthing,
Link,"Name=""Something\somethingo""","Timeout=""300""",
"Target=""\\\thing\thing\thing""","State=""ONLINE""",otherthing,
"Target=""\\\\thing\thing\thing""","State=""OFFLINE""",otherthing,
Link,"Name=""something\something""","Timeout=""1800""",
"Target=""\\thing\thing\thing""","State=""ONLINE""",otherthing,
"Target=""\\thing\thing\thing""","State=""OFFLINE""",otherthing,

is some example data.

I want to have a single line of data starting from each entry beginning 'Link'
and adding entries from the following lines until we reach the next line containing 'Link' when I want to start a new line and repeat the process.
The number of lines containing 'Target' can vary.

I guess something in awk would be the preferred but i'll try anything.

thanks
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Solved:

Code:
awk '/Link/{if (x)print x;x="";}{x=(!x)?$0:x","$0;}END{print x;}' file.txt

Last edited by zaxxon; 04-02-2015 at 08:26 AM.. Reason: tags; zaxxon: more tags ;)
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