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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting a column in multiple files that are comma separated Post 302367148 by Lucky Ali on Sunday 1st of November 2009 02:13:02 PM
Old 11-01-2009
Deleting a column in multiple files that are comma separated

Hi,

I have a directory that contains say 100 files named sequencially like input_1.25_50_C1.txt
input_1.25_50_C2.txt
input_1.25_50_C3.txt
input_1.25_50_C4.txt
..
..
..
input_1.25_50_C100.txt

an example of the content in each of the file is:

"NAME" "MEM.SHIP"
"cgd1_10" "cgd1_10" 0.938962779873022
"cgd1_1860" "cgd1_1860" 0.728179501334915
"cgd1_2500" "cgd1_2500" 0.751709755780061
"cgd1_2560" "cgd1_2560" 0.8086690400501
"cgd1_2640" "cgd1_2640" 0.750586302165714
"cgd1_2800" "cgd1_2800" 0.954020921349781
"cgd1_290" "cgd1_290" 0.757355995574881
"cgd1_2950" "cgd1_2950" 0.558344549451538
"cgd1_3010" "cgd1_3010" 0.667420188529345
"cgd1_50" "cgd1_50" 0.545172222953814
"cgd2_1000" "cgd2_1000" 0.944926355001402
"cgd2_1690" "cgd2_1690" 0.861817882469458
"cgd3_1820" "cgd3_1820" 0.817150133730118
"cgd3_2150" "cgd3_2150" 0.553855831143878
"cgd4_2220" "cgd4_2220" 0.577452218116135


I want to delete the second & third column of each file, make the file tab delimited and replace the column heading "NAME" in the first column as [Gene]

Is there a way in awk or shell programming to do this at a directory level; without openning each file and editing it.

Please let me know.

Lucky Ali

Last edited by Lucky Ali; 11-01-2009 at 03:55 PM..
 

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ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)

NAME
ecaccess-file-move - Move or Rename ECaccess Files SYNOPSIS
ecaccess-file-move -version|-help|-manual ecaccess-file-move [-debug] source-ecaccess-file target-ecaccess-file DESCRIPTION
Allow moving an ECaccess File. When the move occurs within the same ECaccess File System then it is a rename. When the move occurs across two different ECaccess File Systems then first a copy is done and then a delete of the original file is done (e.g. similar to ecaccess- file-copy ... -erase). The source-ecaccess-file and target-ecaccess-file are in the form [domain:][/user-id/]path. Please read the "Shell commands -> File Management" section of the "ecaccess" guide for more information on the ECaccess File System. ARGUMENTS
source-ecaccess-file The source ECaccess File name. target-ecaccess-file The target ECaccess File name. OPTIONS
-version Display version number and exits. -help Print a brief help message and exits. -manual Prints the manual page and exits. -debug Display the SOAP messages exchanged. EXAMPLES
ecaccess-file-move ec:test1.txt ec:test2.txt Rename the test1.txt file in the ECFS directory of the authenticated user in test2.txt. ecaccess-file-move ec:test1.txt home:test2.txt Copy the test1.txt file from the ECFS directory of the authenticated user to the test2.txt file in the $HOME directory of the authenticated user, then delete the test1.txt file from ECFS. SEE ALSO
ecaccess-file-delete, ecaccess-file-get, ecaccess-file-mget, ecaccess-file-modtime, ecaccess-file-mput, ecaccess-file-rmdir, ecaccess-file- copy, ecaccess-file-dir, ecaccess-file-mdelete, ecaccess-file-mkdir, ecaccess-file-chmod, ecaccess-file-put, ecaccess-file-size and ecaccess. perl v5.14.2 2012-04-16 ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)
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