Hi folks, I am trying to figure out how to join two lines on one line of text. For example, I have a text file with the following text: TEXT LINE1 0 TEXT LINE2 0 TEXT LINE2 234 TEXT LINE3 236 ... and so on. I want it to look as follows: TEXT LINE1 0 TEXT LINE2 0 TEXT LINE3 234 TEXT LINE4 236 ... and so on. How would I do it? Thanks for you help... A real novice.

Hi: Here's a sed solution: sed '$!N;s/\n/ /' myfile but I'd use paste: paste -s -d" \n" myfile

Nails, The paste option worked nicely. However, I received a garbled message for sed option. I'll use paste instead. Since this worked for one, how can I do multiples? For example: TEXT LINE1 0 0 TEXT LINE2 0 234 ... on so on. I'd like to look as follows: TEXT LINE1 0 0 TEXT LINE2 0 234 .. and so on. Thanks for you help!

Try this: #change the num to the lines you want to join num=3 count=$num cat textfile | while read lines do if [ "$count" != "1" ]; then echo $lines | tr '\n' ' ' count=`expr $count - 1` else echo $lines count=$num fi done

Hi Vicchai, Thanks for your suggestion. I used Nails paste command suggestion to perform the task. tmp1.dat contained the above text and numbers. cat tmp1.dat | paste - - - > tmp2.dat tmp2.dat contains the numbers on the same line as the text line. Thanks.

To the question: how can I do multiples? For example: TEXT LINE1 0 0 TEXT LINE2 0 234 ... on so on. I'd like to look as follows: TEXT LINE1 0 0 TEXT LINE2 0 234 .. and so on. Use: paste -s -d" \n" p Luke Chi