topic Re: Join lines together in Operating System - HP-UX

Join lines together

Enda martin — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:26:22 GMT

Is it possible to concatenate lines together within a file using cat or any other unix command (within vi I use shift + J)

For example :-
1
2
3
4

=>

12
34

Re: Join lines together

Thierry Poels_1 — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:38:18 GMT

hi,
within vi:

1,$g/./.,.+1j

regards,
Thierry.

Re: Join lines together

Vincenzo Restuccia — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:38:36 GMT

#split -l 1 your_file
#paste xaa xab > test
#paste xac xad >> test

Re: Join lines together

Jerry Jordak — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:39:47 GMT

If you want a real quick and dirty way, this script should do it:

#!/bin/ksh

while read A
do
read B
echo "$A$B"
done

Pipe the file you want to modify into it and redirect the output to another file. HTH.

-JWJ

Re: Join lines together

Rodney Hills — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:40:54 GMT

Try the following-
pr -2tas: yourfile | sed -e 's/://'

Re: Join lines together

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 02 May 2001 13:49:28 GMT

Hi Edna:

Try this:

# awk '{if (NR % 2 == 0) {print X$0} else X=$0} END {print X}' /tmp/yourfile

...JRF...