Hi -
I'm new to the awk programming language. I'm trying to print a single column of data to several columns, and I found an article on iTWorld.com (ITworld.com - Printing in columns). It looks like the mkCols2 script is very close to what I need to do, but it looks like the end of the code... (2 Replies)
I have a program which gives me the output as a single column with hundreds of rows like:
213
314
324
324
123
I want to be able to create a new file from this file which allows me to set the number of rows and columns in the new file, i.e. for this example, if I specify 3 rows and 2... (5 Replies)
Hello Experts,
I am new to this forum, I would like to do the following changes in one of the column of a txt file, which is having around 9 column.
For example, column 3 is having letters like this
AB11
AB12
C
CA
CB
AC1
AC2
I would like to convert the same column as follows
... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have a ksh script which gives me the output as a single column with several rows like:
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
III
I want to be able to create a new file from this file which allows me to set the number of rows and columns in the new file, i.e. for this example, if I... (30 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement with,
No~Dt~Notes
1~2011/08/1~"aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
eee
fff
ggg
hhh"
Single column alone got splitted into multiple lines.
I require the output as
No~Dt~Notes
1~2011/08/1~"aaa<>bbb<>ccc<>ddd<>eee<>fff<>ggg<>hhh"
mean to say those new lines to be... (1 Reply)
I have this input:
10 22 1 100
11 22 10 1 50
14 3 1 100
23 3 1 100
24 15 1 100
10 22 5 3 1 33.333
11 22 1 100
It has an inconsistent number of fields but the last field is determined by 100/(NF-2) using awk.
I want to take this multiple columned input file and transform so that... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am prety new to the hell scripting world. I am running some grep/cut commands and extracting from a csv file into a list. But the final product I need is that the whole list that I now have has to be broken and separated into columns.
Say what I now have extracted is a list of... (6 Replies)
Dear fellows, I need your help.
I'm trying to write a script to convert a single column into multiple rows.
But it need to recognize the beginning of the string and set it to its specific Column number.
Each Line (loop) begins with digit (RANGE).
At this moment it's kind of working, but it... (6 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a simple question. I have a file like below (separated by tab):
col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 col7
21 66745 rs1234 21 rs5678 23334 0.89
21 66745 rs2334 21 rs9978 23334 0.89
21 66745 ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: forevertl
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paste
paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Alsocut(1), grep(1), pr(1)paste(1)