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Old 05-23-2012
Concatenating columns
Hi I have the following input file, It is a tab delimited file

Code:
ISOCOUNTRYCODE  POSTALCODE      CITY    HNO     STREETBASENAME  STREETTYPE
FIN     40950   Muurame         Teollisuus      tie
FIN     02160                   Westendintie
FIN     33210   Tampere         Päämäärän       kuja
FIN     15210   Lahti           Vuoripojankatu  KATU
FIN     62800   Vimpeli (Rural)         Tuohiperä
FIN     39500   Ikaalinen               Peipon  tie
FIN     53920   Lappeenranta            Piiluvan        katu

I'd like to concatenate columns 1,2,3 and 4,5 6
I want my output to look like this, I only want two tab seperated columns
Code:
ISOCOUNTRYCODE,POSTALCODE,CITY    HNO STREETBASENAME STREETTYPE
FIN,40950,Muurame    Teollisuus tie
FIN,02160,    Westendintie
FIN,33210,Tampere    Päämäärän kuja
FIN,15210,Lahti    Vuoripojankatu KATU
FIN,62800,Vimpeli (Rural)    Tuohiperä
FIN,39500,Ikaalinen    Peipon tie
FIN,53920,Lappeenranta    Piiluvan katu

I have tried this but column 4 is messed up

Code:
awk -v OFS="\t" '{$7=$1","$2","$3};{$8=$4","$5" "$6}1' file

# 2  
Old 05-23-2012
Code:
awk -F"\t" '{print $1","$2","$3"\t"$4" "$5}' infile

# 3  
Old 05-23-2012
Hi ramky79,

One way using perl:
Code:
$ cat infile
ISOCOUNTRYCODE  POSTALCODE      CITY    HNO     STREETBASENAME  STREETTYPE
FIN     40950   Muurame         Teollisuus      tie
FIN     02160                   Westendintie
FIN     33210   Tampere         Päämäärän       kuja
FIN     15210   Lahti           Vuoripojankatu  KATU
FIN     62800   Vimpeli (Rural)         Tuohiperä
FIN     39500   Ikaalinen               Peipon  tie
FIN     53920   Lappeenranta            Piiluvan        katu
$ perl -nae 'printf qq[%s\t%s\n], join( q[,], @F[0..2] ), join( q[ ], @F[3..$#F] )' infile
ISOCOUNTRYCODE,POSTALCODE,CITY  HNO STREETBASENAME STREETTYPE
FIN,40950,Muurame       Teollisuus tie
FIN,02160,Westendintie
FIN,33210,Tampere       Päämäärän kuja
FIN,15210,Lahti Vuoripojankatu KATU
FIN,62800,Vimpeli       (Rural) Tuohiperä
FIN,39500,Ikaalinen     Peipon tie
FIN,53920,Lappeenranta  Piiluvan katu

 
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