Furl.awk
From Federal Burro of Information
Your data is like this:
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
- no record seprator
- fixed number of fields per record
- 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"; }