split string

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I am trying to get some data from a file and print it on the same line.
I have a script that gets the body of emails and display it, but i want it to display each emails body in one line no matter how big it is. eg

insted of this

email1: bla bla bla
bla bla bla
bal
email2: bla bla bla bal
bla bla bal

i want it to print

email1: bla bla bal bal bal bal
email2: bla bal bla blalba bla bla

the code i used to print the body is

awk '/Content-Type/{p=1;c++;print "Email-",c;}/Date/{p=0}p' file

Thank You!

2

what is your full input ?

3

Just changing your awk program a bit:

awk '/Content-Type/{p=1;c++;printf("\n%s%s ","Email-",c);}/Date/{p=0}p{printf("%s ",$0)} END{print}' file
4

Do you mean the actual body?

---------- Post updated at 09:00 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:51 PM ----------

It is not printing the emails one after another line by line? it is still breaking the long emails.

thanks

5

Sigh....:wall: why didn't I ask for the input before?

Please provide the input..

6

X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlKshFP6tmOEy2s1QR3S1Jz+MxBV14nq785bMuizQkLNlHBS5IO/6HVa+UBngxbf8sUkiU7

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7

like this ?

# cat file
Date:
From:
Subject:
To:
Content-Type:
---body --1-2-
-----3----
-----4----
-----5----
Date:
From:
Subject:
To:
Content-Type:
----body --6 7---
----8---
----9---
Date:
From:

# awk '/Content-Type/{while(getline){if($0~/Date/)break;x=x?x" "$0:$0}print "email",++i,": " x;x=""}' file
email 1 : ---body --1-2- -----3---- -----4---- -----5----
email 2 : ----body --6 7--- ----8--- ----9---
8

thank you

---------- Post updated at 10:06 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:02 PM ----------

thank you very much!