Re: Text formatting

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:27:28PM -0500, Jason Smith wrote:
> What would be the easiest way to string 3 lines of text and make it into
> one line.  What I have is a page of text with 3 line blocks of text that
> I want to make into one line so that I can feed it into an awk script. 

    perl -e 'while (<>) { tr/\n/ / if ($. % 3); print; }'

Or just

    perl -pe 'tr/\n/ / if ($. % 3)'

Something like that?

The same thing is pretty trivial in awk.  (There may even be an easier
way than this.  I'm not that good with awk.)

    awk '{ if (FNR % 3) { ORS=" " } else { ORS="\n" } print }'

Steve
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