# split string

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130>\
**Category:** Shell Programming and Scripting\
**Created:** [June 19, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130 "2012-06-19T05:49:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![maddog21](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/maddog21/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@maddog21](https://community.unix.com/u/maddog21)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130/1 "2012-06-19T05:49:53Z")

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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

```nohighlight
email1: bla bla bla
bla bla bla
bal
email2: bla bla bla bal
bla bla bal

```

i want it to print

```nohighlight
email1: bla bla bal bal bal bal
email2: bla bal bla blalba bla bla

```

the code i used to print the body is

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

```

Thank You!

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**Author:** ![ygemici](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/ygemici/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@ygemici](https://community.unix.com/u/ygemici)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130/2 "2012-06-19T06:10:23Z")

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what is your full input ?

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**Author:** ![elixir\_sinari](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/elixir_sinari/32/2563_2.png) [@elixir\_sinari](https://community.unix.com/u/elixir_sinari)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130/3 "2012-06-19T06:17:01Z")

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Just changing your awk program a bit:

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

```

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**Author:** ![maddog21](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/maddog21/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@maddog21](https://community.unix.com/u/maddog21)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:00am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130/4 "2012-06-19T07:00:48Z")

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> [@ygemici](#):
>
> what is your full input ?

Do you mean the actual body?

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

> [@elixir\_sinari](#):
>
> Just changing your awk program a bit:
> 
> ```plaintext
> awk '/Content-Type/{p=1;c++;printf("\n%s%s ","Email-",c);}/Date/{p=0}p{printf("%s ",$0)} END{print}' file
> 
> ```

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

thanks

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**Author:** ![elixir\_sinari](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/elixir_sinari/32/2563_2.png) [@elixir\_sinari](https://community.unix.com/u/elixir_sinari)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130/5 "2012-06-19T07:06:21Z")

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> [@maddog21](#):
>
> It is not printing the emails one after another line by line? it is still breaking the long emails.  
> thanks

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

Please provide the input..

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**Author:** ![maddog21](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/maddog21/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@maddog21](https://community.unix.com/u/maddog21)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:36am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130/6 "2012-06-19T07:36:28Z")

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> [@elixir\_sinari](#):
>
> Sigh....:wall: why didn't I ask for the input before?
> 
> Please provide the input..

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**Author:** ![ygemici](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/ygemici/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@ygemici](https://community.unix.com/u/ygemici)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:37am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130/7 "2012-06-19T07:37:46Z")

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> [@maddog21](#):
>
> 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

like this ?

```plaintext
# 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:

```

```plaintext
# 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---

```

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**Author:** ![maddog21](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/maddog21/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@maddog21](https://community.unix.com/u/maddog21)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/split-string/312130/8 "2012-06-19T08:06:09Z")

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thank you

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

thank you very much!