I'm trying to join all the lines which start with pattern
. Also I need to remove the last . if occurs .
The desired results should be:
I somehow managed to join the lines but cannot figure out how to get rid of the word PATTERN from output , remove the dot and delete the first word from the lines to be joined.
The command I came with is:
which produces (in red are the words / characters I don't need):
Thanks in advance for your help.
The spacing in your output is inconsistent and it would have helped if you had explicitly stated that you wanted to remove a trailing period, if present, from each word present in lines being joined; but this seems to come close to what you seem to want:
As always, if you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk.
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