Does anyone know how I could to add a column of numbers (1s, or 2s, or..., or 6s) to two-column text files (tab-delimited), where the specific number to be added varies as a function of the file naming?
Currently, each of my text files has two columns, so the column with the repeated number in it would be the third column. The groups of six text files are located within separate directories, and the easiest way to get at their naming (which determines which number should be added) is by using "ls" - it will always list them in the right order, such that first text file listed should have a third column added with "1s" (for as many rows as it has; where the number of rows varies depending on the specific text file); and the second text file listed should have a third column appended with "2s", so on and so forth.
You don't need ls for that; in fact, it's usually the wrong way to do it. Use filename expansion instead.
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I am still quite new to programming, and my intuition tells me I should use the command "ls" and then pipe "|" that to a certain command that would execute "if the file is the first one, add a column of ones, if file is the second one, a column of twos..." etc.
No, loop through the files with filename expansion.
The awk script might have to be tweaked, depending on the exact format of the files.
Last edited by cfajohnson; 05-23-2009 at 05:21 AM..
I have a tab delimited text file where the first column can take on three different values : 100, 150, 250. I want to extract all the rows where the first column is 100 and put them into a separate text file and so on. This is what my text file looks like now:
100 rs3794811 0.01 0.3434... (1 Reply)
I have a tab delimited text file where the first column can take on three different values : 100, 150, 250. I want to extract all the rows where the first column is 100 and put them into a separate text file and so on. This is what my text file looks like now:
100 rs3794811 0.01 0.3434
100... (1 Reply)
I am generating a output:
Name Count_1 Count_2
abc 12 12
def 15 14
ghi 16 16
jkl 18 18
mno 7 5
I am sending the output in html email, I want to add the code:
<font color="red"> NAME COLUMN record </font>
for the Name... (8 Replies)
I have a tab delimited file with 5 columns
79 A B 20.2340 6.1488 8.5086 1.3838
87 A B 0.1310 0.0382 0.0054 0.1413
88 A B 46.1651 99.0000 21.8107 0.2203
89 A B 0.1400 0.1132 0.0151 0.1334
114 A B 0.1088 0.0522 0.0057 0.1083
115 A B... (2 Replies)
I have a space delimited text file with two columns. I would like to add NA to the first column of the text file.
Input:
19625 10.4791768259
19700 10.8146489183
19701 10.9084026759
19702 10.9861346978
19703 10.9304364984
Output:
NA19625 10.4791768259
NA19700 10.8146489183... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a tab delimited text file with three different columns. I want to add an extra column to the text file. The extra column will be the second column and it will equal third column - 1. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!
Input:
chr1 788822 rs11240777
chr1 1008567 rs9442372... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a tab delimited text file from which I want to cut out specific columns. If the second column equals one, I want to cut out columns 1 and 5 and 6. If the second column equals two, I want to cut out columns 1 and 5 and 7. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (4 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to add a new column containing the row numbers to a text file. How do I go about doing that? Thanks!
Example input:
A X
B Y
C D
Output:
A X 1
B Y 2
C D 3 (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am very now to this, hope you can help,
I am looking into editing a file in Solaris, with dinamic collums (lenght varies) and I need 2 things to be made, the fist is to filter the first column and third column from the file bellow file.txt, and create a new file with the 2 filtered... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I have a data such as this:
ENSGALG00000000189 329 G A 4 2 0
ENSGALG00000000189 518 T C 5 1 0
ENSGALG00000000189 1104 G A 5 1 0
ENSGALG00000000187 3687 G T 5 1 0
ENSGALG00000000187 4533 A T 4 2 0
ENSGALG00000000233 5811 T C 4 2 0
ENSGALG00000000233 5998 C A 5 1 0
I want to... (3 Replies)
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comm
COMM(1) BSD General Commands Manual COMM(1)NAME
comm -- select or reject lines common to two files
SYNOPSIS
comm [-123f] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which should be sorted lexically, and produces three text columns as output: lines only in file1;
lines only in file2; and lines in both files.
The filename ``-'' means the standard input.
The following options are available:
-1 Suppress printing of column 1.
-2 Suppress printing of column 2.
-3 Suppress printing of column 3.
-f Fold case in line comparisons.
Each column will have a number of tab characters prepended to it equal to the number of lower numbered columns that are being printed. For
example, if column number two is being suppressed, lines printed in column number one will not have any tabs preceding them, and lines
printed in column number three will have one.
comm assumes that the files are lexically sorted; all characters participate in line comparisons.
EXIT STATUS
comm exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred.
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), sort(1), uniq(1)STANDARDS
The comm utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD