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new to this..thanks in advance for unix (awk) help...
I have a large file of 3 fields, all numeric, not decimal 8, 8 and 12 bytes; the 1st field is a unique identifier which may be repeated in the file from lines 2-n; the 2nd and 3rd fields contain info about field #1. I want to concatenate the info; e.g., the 1st field remains a unique number and the 2nd and 3rd fields are appended as long as the 1st field remains the same. There may be 10+ repetitions of the first field. Ultimately I want all lines to be the same fixed length realizing some will be filled with some "blanks" and there will be only one unique number in field #1 Thanks so much....
 
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dpkg-ruby

DPKG-RUBY(1)						      General Commands Manual						      DPKG-RUBY(1)

NAME

       dpkg-ruby - Utility to read a dpkg style db file, dpkg-awk clone

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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