[Techtalk] VI(M) - Changing & Merging 2 lines?

[Hamster]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:29:21 -0400
Subba Rao <subba9 at cablespeed.com> wrote:

> 
> I have a large text file where 2 lines (fields) form a record.  Now I want
> 
> to merge the 2 lines into one line seperated by a comma.
> 
> Line1
> Line2
> 
> The fields should be seperated by a comma.
> 
> Line1,Line2

Does it have to be done in Vi? It would be very easy to whip up a bash
script that did that.

Hamster