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Author Re: merge line to previous line if ends with anything other than
Ed Morton

2006-09-21, 7:02 pm

hikums@gmail.com wrote:
> I need to merge line to previous line if line ends with anything other
> than " (double quote).
>
> This is on a huge file. Thanks much..
>
> Kums
>

awk '/"$/{print ""}{printf "%s",$0}END{print ""}' file

Ed.
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