Join lines of a text file so that data is comma delimited

[buckpasser]

I have a large text file where I want to join every 1435 lines together seperating each field with a comma.

Input looks like this:
=======================Input==================

"Record1 Field1"
"Record1 Field2"
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"Record1 Field1435"
"Record2 Field1"
"Record2 Field2"
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"Record2 Field1435"
"RecordN Field1"
"RecordN Field2"
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"RecordN Field1"
"RecordN Field2"
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"RecordN Field1435"

======================Output=====================

"Record1 Field1","Record1 Field2",--->"Record1 Field1435
"Record2 Field1","Record2 Field2",--->"Record2 Field1435
"RecordN Field1","RecordN Field2",--->"RecordN Field1435

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
awk '{printf "%s"(NR%1435 ? "," : "\n"),$0}' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[buckpasser]

Worked great!
Thanks so much.