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Help understand awk command
This command converts the column values to rows.
Command:
awk -s1=" " '{S=S?S OFS s1 $0 s1:s1 $0 s1} END{print S}' OFS=, Input_file
Example:
1
2
3
is converted to:
1, 2, 3
Can anyone please help me understand this command?
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