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I have a file of the following structure:



#1552342335
ls
#1552342359
date
#1552342380
cat .bash_history


i.e. timestamp followed by a text line. I want to process every timestamp line using shell's date (something like date -d ${1/#/@} '+%F %T'), merge it with the next line and wrap with table tags, i.e. the output would be the following:



<tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:12:15</td> <td><pre>ls</pre></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:12:39</td> <td><pre>date</pre></td> </tr>
<tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:13:00</td> <td><pre>cat .bash_history</pre></td> </tr>


I understand it would be something like awk 'NR % 2 {print | " <something here>" } !(NR % 2) {p=$0}' input_file - but I can't find the way to implement all the necessary transformations in one command... Would be very grateful for any help.










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    I have a file of the following structure:



    #1552342335
    ls
    #1552342359
    date
    #1552342380
    cat .bash_history


    i.e. timestamp followed by a text line. I want to process every timestamp line using shell's date (something like date -d ${1/#/@} '+%F %T'), merge it with the next line and wrap with table tags, i.e. the output would be the following:



    <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:12:15</td> <td><pre>ls</pre></td> </tr>
    <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:12:39</td> <td><pre>date</pre></td> </tr>
    <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:13:00</td> <td><pre>cat .bash_history</pre></td> </tr>


    I understand it would be something like awk 'NR % 2 {print | " <something here>" } !(NR % 2) {p=$0}' input_file - but I can't find the way to implement all the necessary transformations in one command... Would be very grateful for any help.










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      I have a file of the following structure:



      #1552342335
      ls
      #1552342359
      date
      #1552342380
      cat .bash_history


      i.e. timestamp followed by a text line. I want to process every timestamp line using shell's date (something like date -d ${1/#/@} '+%F %T'), merge it with the next line and wrap with table tags, i.e. the output would be the following:



      <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:12:15</td> <td><pre>ls</pre></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:12:39</td> <td><pre>date</pre></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:13:00</td> <td><pre>cat .bash_history</pre></td> </tr>


      I understand it would be something like awk 'NR % 2 {print | " <something here>" } !(NR % 2) {p=$0}' input_file - but I can't find the way to implement all the necessary transformations in one command... Would be very grateful for any help.










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      I have a file of the following structure:



      #1552342335
      ls
      #1552342359
      date
      #1552342380
      cat .bash_history


      i.e. timestamp followed by a text line. I want to process every timestamp line using shell's date (something like date -d ${1/#/@} '+%F %T'), merge it with the next line and wrap with table tags, i.e. the output would be the following:



      <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:12:15</td> <td><pre>ls</pre></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:12:39</td> <td><pre>date</pre></td> </tr>
      <tr> <td>2019-03-11 18:13:00</td> <td><pre>cat .bash_history</pre></td> </tr>


      I understand it would be something like awk 'NR % 2 {print | " <something here>" } !(NR % 2) {p=$0}' input_file - but I can't find the way to implement all the necessary transformations in one command... Would be very grateful for any help.







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