Character screening and paste into newfile in columns instead of rows Post: 302999073

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

cut and paste columns using awk

Hi, Let's say that I have a file called table, I know that if I need to see a the second column for exampls I use: awk ' {print $2}' table.txt Is there anyway to use awk to actually cut a column and put it somewhere else in the table?:confused:

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

appending several columns with awk and paste

Hello, I am trying to solve for a couple of hours now the following problem: I have n files and would like to add the third column of each file to a new file: temp1.txt 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 temp2.txt 1 2 4 1 2 4 1 2 4 1 2 4 temp3.txt

3. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support

awk- add columns and make new column and save as newfile

Hi, I have file as below: 5 6 7 4 8 9 3 5 6 output needs to be another file with 4th column as $1+$2 and 5th column as $3+$4. sample output file 5 6 7 11 18 4 8 9 12 21 3 5 6 8 14 Anybody have answer Thanks in advance

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Paste second columns from files to its corresponding file

Hi All, I have two sets of files. One set with extension .txt This set has file names with numbers like these. 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt until extactly 100.txt. The .txt files look like these: 0.38701788 93750 0.38622013 94456 0.38350296 94440 0.38282126 94057 0.38282126 94439 0.35847232...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

split paste them in rows

Hi, I have a file as ABC 123_456_789 234_678_901 XYZ 1100_1250_1580_1680 1175_1440_1620_1890 so on What I want my output file to look is "split by underscore and then place the contents in rows" output ABC 123 234 ABC 456 678 ABC 789 901 XYZ 1100 1175 XYZ 1250 1440...

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting all the fields(columns) from a .csv file if all rows in that columns are blanks

Hi Friends, I have come across some files where some of the columns don not have data. Key, Data1,Data2,Data3,Data4,Data5 A,5,6,,10,, A,3,4,,3,, B,1,,4,5,, B,2,,3,4,, If we see the above data on Data5 column do not have any row got filled. So remove only that column(Here Data5) and...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Evaluate 2 columns, add sum IF two columns match on two rows

Hi all, I know this sounds suspiciously like a homework course; but, it is not. My goal is to take a file, and match my "ID" column to the "Date" column, if those conditions are true, add the total number of minutes worked and place it in this file, while not printing the original rows that I...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Compare 2 csv files by columns, then extract certain columns of matcing rows

Hi all, I'm pretty much a newbie to UNIX. I would appreciate any help with UNIX coding on comparing two large csv files (greater than 10 GB in size), and output a file with matching columns. I want to compare file1 and file2 by 'id' and 'chain' columns, then extract exact matching rows'...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting