I have a large text-file with tab-delimited genetic data that looks like:
KSC112 KSC234 0 0 1 1 A G C T
I simply wan to delete the first column, but since the file has 600 000 columns, it is not possible with awk (seems to be limited at 32k columns).
Does anyone have an idea how to do this? (2 Replies)
Hi All
I wanted to know how to effectively delete some columns in a large tab delimited file.
I have a file that contains 5 columns and almost 100,000 rows
3456 f g t t
3456 g h
456 f h
4567 f g h z
345 f g
567 h j k lThis is a very large data file and tab delimited.
I need... (2 Replies)
Hello Gurus,
I have a text file containing nearly 12,000 tab delimited characters with 4000 rows. If the file size is small, excel can convert the text into coloumns. However, the file that I have is very big. Can some body help me in solving this problem?
The input file example,
... (6 Replies)
I want to add a new column to a tab delimited text file. It will be the first column and it will just be 1's. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (1 Reply)
I have a text file that made using text editor in Ubuntu. However the text file is not being recognized as space or tab delimited, the formatting seems to be messed up. How can I convert the text file into tab delimited format? (3 Replies)
I'm trying to remove all of the empty lines at the end of a Tab delimited file. They have no data just tabs.
I've tried may things, here are a couple:
sed /^\t.\t/d File1 > File2
sed /^\t{44}/d File1 > File2
What am I missing? (9 Replies)
Hello,
I have some tab delimited files that may contain blank columns. I would like to delete the blank columns if they exist. There is no clear pattern for when a blank occurs.
I was thinking of using sed to replace instances of double tab with blank,
sed 's/\t\t//g'
All of the examples... (2 Replies)
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
1|A|apple
2|B|bottle
excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)
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unexpand
UNEXPAND(1) User Commands UNEXPAND(1)NAME
unexpand - convert spaces to tabs
SYNOPSIS
unexpand [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Convert blanks in each FILE to tabs, writing to standard output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a, --all
convert all blanks, instead of just initial blanks
--first-only
convert only leading sequences of blanks (overrides -a)
-t, --tabs=N
have tabs N characters apart instead of 8 (enables -a)
-t, --tabs=LIST
use comma separated list of tab positions The last specified position can be prefixed with '/' to specify a tab size to use after
the last explicitly specified tab stop. Also a prefix of '+' can be used to align remaining tab stops relative to the last speci-
fied tab stop instead of the first column
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO expand(1)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/unexpand>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) unexpand invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 UNEXPAND(1)