split string

[maddog21]

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!

[sudodus]

You can use tr to substitute new-line with space. You can easily pipe via tr.


tr '\n' ' ' < file-with-several-lines.txt

[codemaniac]

You can try up something like below .


awk '/email/{c++}{print > "file" c}' emaildata_file

The above would strip out email bodies and place them into files file1 , file2 ..etc .

[maddog21]

You can try up something like below .


awk '/email/{c++}{print > "file" c}' emaildata_file

The above would strip out email bodies and place them into files file1 , file2 ..etc .


how can i make this in to a script where it reads from one file and outputs to different file?

thanks

[codemaniac]

how can i make this in to a script where it reads from one file and outputs to different file?

thanks

You can put the above awklet in a bash script and execute.


#!/bin/bash

awk '/email/{c++}{print > "file" c}' emaildata_file