Re: [opensuse] Another grep question

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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