[Ilugc] [Help] Need solution in sed/awk for merging lines

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 -- 21000Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes / Athanasios Papoulis

Re: [Ilugc] [Help] Need solution in sed/awk for merging lines

Hi Baskar, hope this awk will help you.. cat a1a 21000Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes / Athanasios Papoulis. : McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995 21001 " 21002Microwave Devices and Circuits / Samuel Y.Liao. : Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, 1990 210

Re: [Ilugc] [Help] Need solution in sed/awk for merging lines

On 5/19/15, Meshach A wrote: > Hi Baskar, hope this awk will help you.. > > awk '{if($1 ~ /^[0-9]../){print "\n"; printf $0}else{printf $0}}' a1a > > or > > awk '{if($1 ~ /^[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/){print "\n"; printf > $0}else{printf $0}}' a1a Thanks. Works perfectly. Is there anyway to remo