Shell Programming and Scripting

Yes,
or:

Code:

awk 'END{print RS}(/^[03] /&&NR>1&&$0=RS$0)||1' ORS= file

Thank you both for your quick replies, i have it working fine now

Another one:

Code:

awk 'END{print RS}$0=NR>1&&/^[03] /?RS$0:$0' ORS= file

I'm working with a file that looks like this:

00800273
1009 0.01
1010 3.88
1011 3.56
1012 4.05
1009 0.05

and want to combine all of the lines into one, so it looks like this:

00800273 1009 0.01 1010 3.88 1011 3.56 1012 4.05 1009 0.05

I'd like to use a sed or awk command.

The input file will not always have the same number of lines, but it is always between 3 and 9 lines long.

Thanks in advance for your help

Code:

tr -s '\n'  ' '  < inputfile > newfile

In awk:

Code:

awk '1' ORS=" " file>newfile

Or:

Code:

paste -sd\  infile