Hi Thomas et al..
This was what I was looking for.
Thanks,
JIM
On Monday 09 April 2007 00:59, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
> James Hatridge wrote:
> > 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?
>
> $> paste - - - - < file.in > file.out
>
> Th.
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