Have been searching through various solns this morning. Finding nothing close enough for me to chew on. ( Im a Sys Admin but not a profound developer of scripts but am familiar with awk/sed/ etc )
My preference is Bash or even perl
I have data like this : ( data is dummy )
==================================================================================== Person Name: Joe Soap Code: 0 ==================================================================================== Purchases:12th June 2013 - Awk for Dummies Vol1 Purchases:42th June 2013 - Awk for Dummies Vol2 Purchases:22th June 2013 - Awk for Dummies Vol3 ==================================================================================== ==================================================================================== Person Name: Mary Soap Code: 0 ==================================================================================== Purchases:52th June 2013 - Sed for Microsoft Lovers Vol1 Purchases:82th June 2013 - Sed for Microsoft Lovers Vol2 ==================================================================================== ==================================================================================== Person Name: Don Soap Code: 0 ==================================================================================== Purchases:3rd March 2013 - Self Healing
I need to get :
Joe Soap:Purchases:12th June 2013 - Awk for Dummies Vol1 Joe Soap:Purchases:42th June 2013 - Awk for Dummies Vol2 Joe Soap:Purchases:22th June 2013 - Awk for Dummies Vol3 Mary Soap:Purchases:52th June 2013 - Sed for Microsoft Lovers Vol1 Mary Soap:Purchases:82th June 2013 - Sed for Microsoft Lovers Vol2 Don Soap:Purchases:3rd March 2013 - Self Healing
I would imagine its straight forward.. but would appreciate pointers :)P
Thanks all!