# labels.awk --- print mailing labels # # Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com, Public Domain # June 1992 # December 2010, minor edits # Each label is 5 lines of data that may have blank lines. # The label sheets have 2 blank lines at the top and 2 at # the bottom. BEGIN { RS = "" ; MAXLINES = 100 } function printpage( i, j) { if (Nlines <= 0) return printf "\n\n" # header for (i = 1; i <= Nlines; i += 10) { if (i == 21 || i == 61) print "" for (j = 0; j < 5; j++) { if (i + j > MAXLINES) break printf " %-41s %s\n", line[i+j], line[i+j+5] } print "" } printf "\n\n" # footer delete line } # main rule { if (Count >= 20) { printpage() Count = 0 Nlines = 0 } n = split($0, a, "\n") for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) line[++Nlines] = a[i] for (; i <= 5; i++) line[++Nlines] = "" Count++ } END { printpage() }