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Old 07-12-2012
Columns to Rows

I want to create a script with gawk.

I have the following file with 2 columns:


Code:
A 1 
A 2
A 3
B 1
B 2
B 3
C 1
C 2
D 1
D 2
D 3
D 4

and i want to convert to:

Code:
A 1 2 3
B 1 2 3 
C 1 2
D 1 2 3 4

Thanks in advance.

BR,
Sameer
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Last edited by Corona688; 07-12-2012 at 06:01 PM..
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Old 07-13-2012
Hi


Code:
$ gawk '$1==x{y=y FS $2;next}{if(y)print y;x=$1;y=$1 FS $2;}END{print y;}' file
A 1 2 3
B 1 2 3
C 1 2
D 1 2 3 4

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