Newbie question

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello,

I have text file while looks this

test1
test2
test3
test4
test5
test6

and if I want to parse it and make new file which would like this

test1 test2
test3 test4
test5 test6

How can I do this in korn shell script

Thanks

2

cat file | paste - -

3

Why, vgersh99, you surprise me. See the site mentioned in this post. :slight_smile:

As I read somewhere, more than one way to skin this cat:
sed 'N;s/\n/ /' < inputfile

4

awesome thank you, it works

5

Your cat was not as useless as mine was.

My bad - beat me with my own argument - good catch. :wink:

paste - - < file

6

ran into new issue, since I have the file

TEST1 TEST2
TEST3 TEST4
TEST4 TEST6

How do I convert this to lower case?

awk '{ print $1 $2| "tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'"}' filename

But tr takes away the newline, is there a different way to do it?

--Peeyush

7

awk '{ print tolower($0)}' filename

or if it's related to the original posting:
paste - - < file | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

8

thanks for the reply

But this is if I already have

TEST1 TEST2
TEST3 TEST3

format

awk '{ print tolower($0) print tolower($1)}' file somehow didn't work

9

nevermind, it works, thanks tr command works :rolleyes:

10

You have syntaxes in the above ....

do either

awk '{ print $0 }' file1 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

or simply

tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" < file1

or suggestions from "vgersh99"