Shell Programming and Scripting

I seem to have gotten myself in over my head on this one. I need help combining lines together.

I have a text file containing 24,000 lines (exactly why I need awk) due to bad formatting it has separated the lines (ideally it should be 12,000 lines total).

Example of file:

169.393 171.312 56.783 88.03 56.118
56.666 86.571 169.393 -999.25
169.393 171.312 56.783 88.03 56.118
56.666 86.571 169.393 -999.25
169.393 171.312 56.783 88.03 56.118
56.666 86.571 169.393 -999.25

It goes on that way for 24k lines. What I need to do is bring the second line up after the first one so it looks like:

169.393 171.312 56.783 88.03 56.118 56.666 86.571 169.393 -999.25
169.393 171.312 56.783 88.03 56.118 56.666 86.571 169.393 -999.25
169.393 171.312 56.783 88.03 56.118 56.666 86.571 169.393 -999.25

The kicker thing is that there is no way to sort the two apart by the numbers, assume the numbers are completely random. The only way I can think is to try and sort by number of fields in each line. Is there any other way this can be done, or can someone help me figure out how to sort them by number of fields (4 vs 5).

Thanks

Blueheed

Well, now don't I feel like a fool. I spend an hour trying to do it, can't, and then post asking for help. Two minutes later I figure it out.

If anyone cares to know, I simply printed all records with NF > 4 and NF <5, so I'd have two files with the 4 field and 5 field records. From here I can combine them with join.

Thanks anyways.

Blueheed

Code:

paste -d ' ' - - < myFile