Indented lines (tree) to path-like lines

Question

I have input files with the structure like the next:

a1
  b1
    c1
    c2
    c3
  b2
    c1
      d1
      d2
  b3
  b4
a2
a3
  b1
  b2
    c1
    c2
         


        

Answer 1

interesting question.

this awk (could be one-liner) command does the job:

awk -F'  ' 'NF<=p{for(i=1;i<=p;i++)printf "%s%s", a[i],(i==p?RS:"/")
            if(NF

you can see above, there are duplicated codes, you can extract them into a function if you like.

test with your data:

kent$  cat f
a1
  b1
    c1
    c2
    c3
  b2
    c1
      d1
      d2
  b3
  b4
a2
a3
  b1
  b2
    c1
    c2

kent$  awk -F'  ' 'NF<=p{for(i=1;i<=p;i++)printf "%s%s", a[i],(i==p?RS:"/")
if(NF