Hi all, I have a text file with more than 10K+ lines in the following format. I want to merge the text data in a single line as shown in the bottom. Any sed/awk solution would be helpful.
Input file ---------- 21000 Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes / Athanasios Papoulis. : McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995 21001 " 21002 Microwave Devices and Circuits / Samuel Y.Liao. : Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, 1990 21003 " 21004 Physics of Semiconductor Devices / Sze S.M. : John Wiley & Sons, 1981 21005 " 21006 Digital signal processing: a system design approach / David U. Defatta. : John Wiley & Sons (SEA) Pte Ltd , 1988 Required output: ---------------- 21000 Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes / Athanasios Papoulis. : McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995 21001 " 21002 Microwave Devices and Circuits / Samuel Y.Liao. : Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, 1990 21003 " 21004 Physics of Semiconductor Devices / Sze S.M. : John Wiley & Sons, 1981 21005 " 21006 Digital signal processing: a system design approach / David U. Defatta. : John Wiley & Sons (SEA) Pte Ltd, 1988 Thanks in advance S. Baskar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
