Joining Textlines containing "Key: Text."
Zimmermann
berndmz at unido.UUCP
Fri Nov 8 00:36:15 AEST 1985
I have a file where each line contains a keyword, a colon and text. The keyword
would be a string not containing a colon and the file is sorted by key.
I want to join lines with the same key so that the key and the colon appears
only once and the text potions are concatenated somehow.
key1 : textA key1 : textA
key2 : textB \ key2 : textB textC textD
key2 : textC ======\ key3 : textE textF
key2 : textD ======/
key3 : textE /
key3 : textF
I think this problem isn't so exotic. E.g. it may occur when you generate
makefiles automatically.
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