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04-13-2019

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Originally Posted by dineshkumarsrk

Its printing exactly reverse order. The last file (0rg30) columns printed first followed by org29, org28 ......org1.

There are several easy options here...

Change the order of the operands given to paste:

Code:

 > RES; for FN in $(ls *.xls | sort -t. -k1.4n); do cut -f1,5 $FN | paste RES - > TMP; mv TMP RES; done

Reverse the sort order as RudiC suggested:

Code:

 > RES; for FN in $(ls *.xls | sort -t. -k1.4nr); do cut -f1,5 $FN | paste - RES > TMP; mv TMP RES; done

In both of the above you can replace ls *.xls with printf '%s\n' *.xls to run a little bit faster (using a shell built-in instead of invoking ls).

If you know that there will always be at least 10 files to be processed and that there will never be more than 99 files to process, get rid of the ls and the sort:

Code:

 > RES; for FN in org?.xls org??.xls; do cut -f1,5 $FN | paste RES - > TMP; mv TMP RES; done

Fix the minor logic problem in what Ravinder suggested and use one invocation of awk instead of thirty invocations of paste:

Code:

awk -v OFS='\t' '
{	line[FNR] = ((NR == FNR) ? "" : line[FNR] OFS) $1 OFS $5 }
END {	for(i = 1; i <= FNR; i++) print line[i] }
' $(printf '%s\n' org*.xls | sort -t. -k1.4n) > concats.xls

or:

Code:

awk -v OFS='\t' '
{	line[FNR] = ((NR == FNR) ? "" : line[FNR] OFS) $1 OFS $5 }
END {	for(i = 1; i <= FNR; i++) print line[i] }
' org?.xls org??.xls > concats.xls

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