[TriLUG] vi or sed or perl question - joining lines

[Craig Taylor]

Awk is your friend...

cat tmp.txt | awk '{ line=$0;if( NR % 12 == 0 ) print line; else printf
"%s",substr( line, 0,length(line)+1  ); }'

(Note: I tried the same thing with gsub but couldn't get it to work.. )


On 6/1/07, Mike Norwood <norwoodm at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a big goofy text file I need to get into a more usable format.
> Basically what I need to do is join every 12 lines into 1 line, down
> through the entire file.  Does anyone have a good suggestion on how to do
> this?  I know that I must have done this same thing 2 years ago, because I
> found an earlier version of this same data from May 2005 that I somehow
> converted, but I now have no idea how it was done.
>
> Thanks, Mike
>
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