Originally Posted by mskcc

Wired, My file is a multi-column based tab delimited file with uneven rows. It needs to be transposed to row based txt file. This is code,
bash-2.03$ more file_transpose
###file transpose, colume to row
###from unix.com/ygor, 07/29/2005

awk '{
for (f = 1; f <= NF; f++)
a[NR, f] = $f
}
NF > nf { nf = NF }
END {
for (f = 1; f <= nf; f++)
for (r = 1; r <= NR; r++)
printf a[r, f] (r==NR ? RS : FS)
}' atcc_fidler_pvs_all_markers.txt > atcc_fidler_pvs_all_markers_out.txt

The error message is,
sorgerlab-x% bash
bash-2.03$ ./file_transpose
awk: syntax error near line 3
awk: illegal statement near line 3
awk: syntax error near line 9
awk: illegal statement near line 9

Thanks for the help

Originally Posted by mskcc

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