combining multiple rows in single row based on certain condition using awk or sed

[samuel ray]

Hi,

I'm using AIX(ksh shell).

> cat temp.txt

"a","b",0
"c",bc",0
"a1","b1",0
"cc","cb",1
"cc","b2",1
"bb","bc",2

I want the output as:

"a","b","c","bc ","a1","b1"
"cc","cb","cc", "b2"
"bb","bc"

I want to combine multiple lines into single line where third column is same.

Is it possible through paste,sed or awk commands?

Regards,
Sam

[rski]

If the lines you want to join are next to each other you can use that simple solution

awk  -F"," '
BEGIN{num_old="";num_new=""}
{if (num_old==""){num_old=$3;num_new=$3} else {num_new=$3} 
 if (num_old==num_new){printf $1 "," $2 ","} 
 if (num_old != num_new) {printf"\n";num_old=num_new;printf $1 "," $2 ","} 
}
END {printf "\n"} '  1.txt | sed 's/,$//g'

If rows are not nex to each other then to use above solution you will have to sort that file by the last column or use some hash table to keep values.