Combine lines from file

holyearth · 08-11-2012, 09:58 PM

Hello,

Input file looks like this:
apples
bananas
oranges and rice
pears
cherries
mango

I want output to look like this:
apples bananas
oranges and rice pears
cherries mango

It should combine line 1 with line 2 and line 3 with line 4 like that....

Right now, only way I can think is to use head -n 2 but I want output file to be created with all of input processed....

Thanks for all the help in advance!!!

druuna · 08-12-2012, 03:00 AM

Try this:

Code:

sed 'N;s/\n/ /' infile

The above appends the next line to the buffer, removes the \n and prints the buffer content.

grail · 08-12-2012, 03:10 AM

Awk

Code:

awk 'ORS=NR%2?" ":"\n"' file