1st column,2nd column on first line 3rd,4th on second line ect...

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I need to take one column of data and put it into the following format:

1st line,2nd line
3rd line,4th line
5th line,6th line
...

Thanks!

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awk '{ getline VAR ; printf ("%s,%s\n", $0, VAR); }' filename
3

That's only giving me:

,2nd line
,4th line
,6th line
...

I need:

1st line,2nd line
3rd line,4th line
5th line,6th line

Thanks for the quick response

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Huh? I get the desired output with the solution of Corona688... Another one assuming the file has even numbers of lines:

awk 'NR%2{s=$0 ",";next}{print s $0}' file
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sed -n 'h;n;H;x;s/\n/,/;p' infile
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-bash-3.00$ awk 'NR%2{s=$0 ",";next}{print s $0}' infile>outfile
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

no good

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Code:
sed -n 'h;n;H;x;s/\n/,/;p' infile

Looks good! thanks

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Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.