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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Awk: is it possible to print into multiple columns? Post 302937383 by senhia83 on Thursday 5th of March 2015 10:07:13 AM
Old 03-05-2015
Are your first column always the same and in same order?
If yes, this might help extract col2 from all your files , but you need to paste col1 from one of your files.

Should maintain order.


Code:
BEGIN {
  count = 1
}

FNR == 1 && FNR < NR {
  count++
}

{
  if ( _[FNR] ) {
    while ( c[FNR] != count-1 ) {
      _[FNR] = (_[FNR] " " sprintf("%8s",""))
      c[FNR]++
    }
    _[FNR] = (_[FNR] " " sprintf("%-8s",$2))
    c[FNR]++
  }
  else if ( count == 1 ) {
    _[FNR] = sprintf("%-8s",$2)
    c[FNR]++
  }
  else {
    while ( c[FNR] != count-1 ) {
      if ( _[FNR] )
        _[FNR] = (_[FNR] " " sprintf("%8s",""))
      else
        _[FNR] = sprintf("%8s","")
      c[FNR]++
    }
    _[FNR] = (_[FNR] " " sprintf("%-8s",$2))
    c[FNR]++
  }
}

END {
  for (i=1; i<=length(_); i++)
    print _[i]
}


Save this as liuzhencc.awk , give a execute status like chmod 777

and run as

Code:
awk -f liuzhencc.awk file1 file2 .... filen

 

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