Shell Programming and Scripting

set -x
#!/bin/ksh
format_file=$1
source_file=$2
i=0
for col in `cat $format_file | awk 'BEGIN {FS=","} {print $1}'`
do
#col_val=`echo $col|cut -d"," -f0`
echo $col>> tmp.dat
done
#sed -iq 's/^/\$/g' tmp.dat
for ch in `cat tmp.dat`
do
echo -n $ch >> tmp_2.dat
done
i=0
for col_2 in `cat tmp_2.dat`
do
i=`expr $i + 1`
echo $col_2
#col2=$(echo $col_2|sed 's/\$/ \$/g')
col2=$(echo $col_2|sed 's/./& /g')
#col2=$col_2
echo $col2
awk -v var="$col2" '
BEGIN {n=split(var,a)}
{
  for(i=1;i<=n;i++) {
    printf "%s%s", $a[i], i==n?"\n":" "
  }
}' $source_file > tmp.csv
#awk '{print $'colmn'}' $source_file> tmp.csv
done
echo $i

awk -F "(,|[ \t]+)" '
NR == FNR {
  if (cnt[$1] ++ == 0)
     col[j++] = $1
}
NR != FNR {
  for (i = 0; i < j; i ++)
     printf ("%s%s", i ? " " : "", $(col[i]))
  printf ("\n")
}' your-format-file  your-data-file