Hello, I am running Tivoli Storage Manager command "query event" and trying to basically un-wrap hostnames that are too long. For a hostname that is longer than a certain amount of characters, a "-" is placed at the end and the last few characters are wrapped to the next line. I want to replace the "-" with the last characters of the hostname which are on the next line. See below 2005/06/06 SERVER- Failed NAME1 2005/06/06 SERVER1 Completed 2005/06/06 SERVER- Missed NAME2 The actual hostnames in the example above would be SERVERNAME1, SERVER1, and SERVERNAME2. If there is a dash, I want to replace it with the first word on the next line, which would be the last characters of the jobname. I am getting this report with awk, but can't find a way to replace the dash with first word on next line. Nothing needs to be done if no dash is found. Any suggestions on this one? Thanks

awk '{ dash=index($0,"-") if (dash==0)    print else   {getline overflow    print substr($0,1,dash-1) \       overflow substr($0,dash+1)} }' filein

Worked great, thanks