Hello!
I am very new to Linux and I do not know where to begin...

I have a column with >64,000 elements (that are not in numberical order) like this:

name
2
5
9
.
.
.
64,000

I would like to transpose this column into a row that will later become the header of a very large file (>1000 rows X >64,000 columns) so that the row looks like:

name 2 5 9 . . . 64,000

Next I need to concatenate this header with the actual data file (data points are letters) so that:

name 2 5 9 . . .64,000
jim A C A . . .T
max T G A . . .T
mary T C T . . .A
.
.
.
kate A C A . . .A

Finally, I need to sort the columns so that they are in numerical order but the name column remains in the first position so that

name 1 2 3 . . .64,000
jim A A A . . .G
max C T A . . .C
mary C T T . . .C
.
.
.
kate A A T . . .G

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,
doob