On Sunday 08 April 2007 20:49:02 James Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all,,
>
> I'm not sure if this is a grep or awk question. I have a file with many
> records of 4 lines each in it. Like this:
>
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> etc, etc
>
> I need the file to look like this:
>
> 1 tab 2 tab 3 tab 4
> 1 tab 2 tab 3 tab 4
> etc etc....
>
> How can I do this?
Perhaps with bash?
#!/bin/bash
while read line1; do
read line2;
read line3;
read line4;
echo -e "$line1\t$line2\t$line3\t$line4" >> outputfile
done < testfile
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