Shell Programming and Scripting

name    d       b       c       a
l       l1      l2      l3    l4
l1      1       2       3       4
l2      2       2       2       1
l3      1       1       2       2

name    a       b       c       d
l1     l4       l2      l3     l1
l1      4       2       3       1
l2      1       2       2       2
l3      2       1       2       1

awk -f transp.awk file | LC_ALL=C sort | awk -f transp.awk
Name    a       b       c       d
l       l4      l2      l3      l1
l1      4       2       3       1
l2      1       2       2       2
l3      2       1       2       1

                {MX=NF
                 for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) C[NR, i]=$i
                }
END             {for (j=1; j<=NR; j++)  {for (i=1; i<=MX; i++) printf "%s\t", C[i,j]
                                         printf "\n"
                                        }
                }