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Old 05-23-2005
display column in a row
how can i display every column in a row individually........

i vauguely remmeber something like echo $1 $2 etc.......but i dont remmeber properly......so is there anything like that?

i tried searching but wasnt able to find......

thanks and regards
vivek.s
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Old 05-23-2005
transposing a matrix
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Originally Posted by vivekshankar
how can i display every column in a row individually........

i vauguely remmeber something like echo $1 $2 etc.......but i dont remmeber properly......so is there anything like that?

i tried searching but wasnt able to find......

thanks and regards
vivek.s
nawk -f transpose.awk file.txt

here's transpose.awk:
Code:
# with this infile:
#
# a b c d
# e f g h
# i j k l
#
{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){a[i,NR]=$i};m=NF;n=NR}
END{for(j=1;j<=m;j++){
         for(k=1;k<=n;k++){printf("%s ",a[j,k])}print ""}}

# outputs:
#
#
# a e i
# b f j
# c g k
# d h l

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Old 05-23-2005
Thanks a lot :-) Smilie

Regards
vivek.s
 
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