Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:51:29 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] simpliest way to process this data file Message-ID: <1177570289.22129.39.camel@joe.realss.com> In-Reply-To: <1177557488.22129.16.camel@joe.realss.com> References: <1177557488.22129.16.camel@joe.realss.com>
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An example that is probably not simple enough:
awk 'BEGIN { FS="\n"; RS="\n\n";} { print ""; print $NF; for (i=1; i<NF; i++) print $i;}'
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:18 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> I know this is OT but we got so many sysops here and this might be
> something very easy for them to drop me a quick answer?
>
> I have a data file formatted like this each block of data consist of
> several lines; blocks are separated by empty lines like this
>
> This is a
> block
> of data
> with lines
>
> and another block
> of
> data
>
> The task is to move the last line of each block to the first line of the
> block. So the processed data look like this:
>
> with lines
> This is a
> block
> of data
>
> data
> and other block
> of
>
> I have tried a lot reading info pages of sed still cannot figure out an
> easy solution (tried to play with "N" command a lot of times). I know
> how to do it in awk but I am pretty interested to learn a second
> language and I really think sed or other tools should be able to handle
> this:)
>
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Zhang Weiwu
Real Softservice
http://www.realss.com
+86 592 2091112
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