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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Column to row and position data in a text file Post 303004973 by ctsgnb on Wednesday 11th of October 2017 11:42:37 AM
Old 10-11-2017
Just another idea for fun...
Code:
set -- $( xargs -n2 <yourfile | sed 's/ .*//' | xargs )
echo -e "$7,$8,ZZZZZZ\n$1,$4\n$2,$5\n$3,$6\n"

(to be adapted )
 

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