Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello rramkrishnas,

I am not sure the output you have shown which shows us leading spaces are uneven, so if you need exact output as you have shown us then following may be helpful to you.

Code:

awk '{if($0 ~ />$/){sub(/^[[:space:]]+/,X,$0);ORS="\n"} else {ORS=""}} 1'  Input_file

Output will be as follows.

Code:

 <Node>xxxxxx<Node>yyyyy</Node>
<Node>zzzzzz<Node>AAAAAAAAA<Node>12345</node>

If in case you don't want to have any leading spaces then following may help you in same.

Code:

awk '{sub(/^[[:space:]]+/,X,$0);ORS=$0 ~ />$/?"\n":""} 1'  Input_file

Output will be as follows.

Code:

<Node>xxxxxx<Node>yyyyy</Node>
<Node>zzzzzz<Node>AAAAAAAAA<Node>12345</node>

Let me know if you have any queries.


Thanks,
R. Singh

Thanks Ravindra,

It has worked perfectly and I am going to have good time now.

This will help me to save lot of time in converting my data.

Regards,
Ram

Try also

Code:

awk '{ORS=/\/[nN]ode/?"\n":""}1' file