# DOS quoting: perl -ne "$contig=$1 if /^Sequence:\s+(\S+)/; print \"$contig $_\" if $_!~/^(\S+:)/ && /\S/" dat.txt # *nix quoting: perl -ne '$contig=$1 if /^Sequence:\s+(\S+)/; print "$contig $_" if $_!~/^(\S+:)/ && /\S/' dat.txt