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# 8  
Old 06-24-2013
What be so difficult in using code tags as required?

If I interpret correctly what you say, those country/currency entries already exist in output.xls. Be aware that correlating file entries based on just line numbers may be dangerous as a missing line will corrupt your results. Anyhow, try sth like (untested):
Code:
awk 'NR==FNR {TMP[NR]=$6"|"$7"|"$8"|"$9; next} FNR==1 {print "Col1|Col2|Col3|Col4|Col5|Col6";next} {print $1"|"$2"|"TMP[NR]} output.xls Inputdata.txt

Edit: Improved above untested version:
Code:
awk     'FNR==NR        {TMP[FNR]=$6"|"$7"|"$8"|"$9; next}
         FNR==1         {print "Col1|Col2|Col3|Col4|Col5|Col6";next}
                        {print $1"|"$2"|"TMP[FNR]}
        ' InputData.txt output.xls
Col1|Col2|Col3|Col4|Col5|Col6
IND|INR|May|13|12:27|TestMurex
IND|INR|May|13|12:29|20130614
IND|INR|Jun|13|08:43|Markt3
US|USD|Jun|13|09:22|Markt2
EUR|EUR|Jun|13|09:22|Markt1
EUR|EUR|Jun|14|15:01|Markt
AUS|AUD|Jun|24|10:59|..
GBP|GBP|Jun|24|11:07|Inputdata.txt
GBP|GBP|Jun|24|11:07|.

Last edited by RudiC; 06-24-2013 at 01:08 PM.. Reason: eliminated script errors and tested it.
# 9  
Old 06-24-2013
Thanks for your quick response Pikk

But her the out put is going in to single column in excel,i need each word should place in each cell of the excel say in A1 cell Column1 and B1 column2 .....etc and in A2 cell IND,B2 cell INR ...etc.

Please help me !!!
# 10  
Old 06-24-2013
Try the delimiter as TAB. that should help you!
# 11  
Old 06-25-2013
One option is to just copy-paste the ls -ltr output into excel, it gets pasted into a single column (with a selection band around it). Without doing any else, just go straight to the menu and choose data -> text to columns -> delimited -> and select space and tab as separator and select treat consecutive delimiters as one and then choose next and finish. If there are no spaces in your file names then the ls output should land nicely in seperate columns.
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