Line break on word

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a file that contains the following:

^field LINE_1     data
^field LINE_2     data
^field LINE_3     data
^field LINE_4     data
^field LINE_5     data 
...

And im looking to do a line break at the end of the number before the text to make it look like this

^field LINE_1    
data
^field LINE_2     
data
^field LINE_3     
data
^field LINE_4     
data
^field LINE_5     
data

I have been unsuccesfully searching all day, any help woudl be great
Thanks

2

You can try below

 
awk '{print $1" "$2"\n"$3}' input_file > output_file

Regards,
Vishal

3

Thank you vishalaswani
that is 99% there!
It chopps it off at the first word after the break, if i have a line with 20 words on it, how do i make it read to the end?

4

Should it always put the last word in the next line, no matter how many words there are?

5

Yes
If the line was to say "THIS IS ALL YOUR TEXT" i would need it to have all of it and not just the first word

6

I do not understand that explanation, but you can try this:

awk '{$NF=RS $NF; print}' infile

In case that is not what you are looking for, post your complete example input and an example output using

```text
 and 
```

tags, thanks.

7

Sorry for the confusion, if i was to have this:

^field LINE_22    
^field LINE_23      BILLING     CREDIT   AVAILABLE     PAST DUE       MINIMUM     TOTAL DUE
^field LINE_24         DATE      LIMIT      CREDIT                    PAYMENT
^field LINE_25     00-00-00          0           0          .00           .00           .00
^field LINE_26     00-00-00          0           0          .00           .00           .00

i would like the final output to be:

^field LINE_22  
  
^field LINE_23
      BILLING     CREDIT   AVAILABLE     PAST DUE       MINIMUM     TOTAL DUE
^field LINE_24 
        DATE      LIMIT      CREDIT                    PAYMENT
^field LINE_25 
    00-00-00          0           0          .00           .00           .00
^field LINE_26 
    00-00-00          0           0          .00           .00           .00

Does that help?

8

Maybe I understood it after reading again:

$> cat infile
^field LINE_1    This is all your text A
^field LINE_2    This is all your text B
^field LINE_3    This is all your text C
$> awk '{$3=RS $3; print}' infile
^field LINE_1
This is all your text A
^field LINE_2
This is all your text B
^field LINE_3
This is all your text C
9

Just saw the example:

$> awk '{$3=RS "\t"$3; print}' infile
^field LINE_22

^field LINE_23
        BILLING CREDIT AVAILABLE PAST DUE MINIMUM TOTAL DUE
^field LINE_24
        DATE LIMIT CREDIT PAYMENT
^field LINE_25
        00-00-00 0 0 .00 .00 .00
^field LINE_26
        00-00-00 0 0 .00 .00 .00
10

Awesome! My only dilema with that is its losing its white space before and in between words, any suggestions?

11

Can't you just do:

sed 's/LINE_[0-9][0-9]*/&\n/'
12

a bit ugly, but....

nawk '{match($0,"^[^"FS"]+"FS"+[^"FS"]+");print substr($0,1,RLENGTH) RS substr($0,RSTART+RLENGTH)}' myFile