Shell/Bash parsing text file

Question

I have this text file, which looks like this

Item:
SubItem01
SubItem02
SubItem03
Item2:
SubItem0201
SubItem0202
Item3:
SubItem0301
...etc...

And I need is to get it to look like this:

Item=>SubItem01
Item=>SubItem02
Item=>SubItem03
Item2=>SubItem0201
Item2=>SubItem0202
Item3=>SubItem0301

I am aware of the fact, that I need two for loops to get this. I did some tests, but... well, it didn't end up well.

for(( c=1; c<=lineCount; c++ ))
do

   var=`sed -n "${c}p" TMPFILE`
   echo "$var"

   if [[ "$var" == *:* ]];
   then
   printf "%s->" $var
   else
   printf "%s\n"
   fi
done

Could anyone please kick me back on the road? I tried bunch of variete ways, but I am not getting anywhere. Thanks.

Answer 1

If you want to continue down the bash shell road, you can do something like this:

item_re="^(Item.*):$"
while read -r; do
    if [[ $REPLY =~ $item_re ]]; then
        item=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
    else
        printf "%s=>%s\n" "$item" "$REPLY"
    fi
done < file.txt