Hi all,

I have the following problem and hope someone could help me.

I have 184 files, each with 5 columns (c1, c2, c3, c4, c5). I am only interrested in column 5, and would like to paste column 5 from all the 184 files into one file. I have tried the following with two files

awk '{print $5)' file1 file2 | paste -d" " >! a06.txt

The above command line does work, but it pastes colum 5 in one column in the new file (a06.txt). I want it to do it side by side, i.e. c5file1 c5file2, instead of c5file1
c5file2
At the end, I expect to have a file with c5file2 c5file2 c5file3....c5file184.

Thanks for your help!