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opposite of "unfurl"
 
Your data is like this:. "furl" is a word, who knew?


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# no record seprator
axiom / assumption:
 
# no record separator
# fixed number of fields per record
# fixed number of fields per record
# number of field is 5 ( obviously you can change this to suit )
# number of field is 5 ( obviously you can change this to suit )

Latest revision as of 15:37, 2 November 2022

opposite of "unfurl"

Your data is like this:. "furl" is a word, who knew?

record 1 field 1
record 1 field 2
record 1 field 3
record 1 field 4
record 1 field 5
record 2 field 1
record 2 field 2
record 2 field 3
record 2 field 4
record 2 field 5
record 3 field 1
record 3 field 2
record 3 field 3
record 3 field 4
record 3 field 5

axiom / assumption:

  1. no record separator
  2. fixed number of fields per record
  3. number of field is 5 ( obviously you can change this to suit )

try this:

awk -f furl.awk datafile.txt

ful.awk is:

{
if      ( NR%5 == 1 )
  printf "%s," , $0
else if ( NR%5 == 2 )
  printf "%s," , $0
else if ( NR%5 == 3 )
  printf "%s," , $0
else if ( NR%5 == 4 )
  printf "%s," , $0
else if ( NR%5 == 0 )
  print $0
else
  print "NOPE";
}

output:

record 1 field 1,record 1 field 2,record 1 field 3,record 1 field 4,record 1 field 5
record 2 field 1,record 2 field 2,record 2 field 3,record 2 field 4,record 2 field 5
record 3 field 1,record 3 field 2,record 3 field 3,record 3 field 4,record 3 field 5