Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,
im a linux newbie, plz help!

I have a file -

box
--------
Fox-2
--------
UF29
zip42
--------
zf-CW
SNF2_N
Heli_Z
--------
Fox
--------
Kel_1
box
--------
oxTY
--------

I need an output such that all the columns between -------- comes as a single line
Required output is -

box
--------
Fox-2
--------
UF29 zip42
--------
zf-CW SNF2_N Heli_Z
--------
Fox
--------
Kel_1 box
--------
oxTY
--------

Thanks in advance.

Code:

#! /usr/bin/perl
undef $/;
open FH,"a.txt";
$str=<FH>;
@arr=split("--------",$str);
foreach(@arr){
	s/\n/ /g;
	print $_,"\n";
	print "--------\n";
}

Code:

awk '/---/{print "\n"$0;next}{printf("%s ", $0)}' a.txt

With awk:

Code:

awk '
/--------/{print "\n" $0;f=0;next}
{printf "%s%s",$0,s?" ":"";s=1}
' file

Regards

Thanks summer_cherry

Thanks Franklin

It worked fine for me.