Can't reproduce your problem:
but neither can produce your required output as no e.g. 2020-01-05 020012 is in your input data.
With strange problems like this, I usually presume non-printing control characters in file, like the DOS line terminator <CR> (\r = ^M = 0x0D).
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: (8 Replies)
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 (2 Replies)
I have this text file with a very large number of columns (10,000+) and I want to move the first column to the position of the six column so that the text file looks like this:
Before cutting and pasting
ID Family Mother Father Trait Phenotype
aaa bbb ... (5 Replies)
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... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I already have a code which replaces column 14 of NPBR.XTR.tmp with column 8 of NPBR3G.XTR.final
awk -F'\|' 'FNR==NR{a= $2"^"$8;next;}a{split(a,b,"^");$8=b;$14=b;}1' OFS="|" ${SHTEMP}NPBR3G.XTR.final ${SHTEMP}NPBR.XTR.tmp > ${SHTEMP}NPBR.XTR.final
I also need to replace column 15... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I've multiple files. In this case 5. Space separated columns. Each file has 12 columns. Each file has 300-400K lines.
I want to get the output such that if a value in column 2 is present in all the files then get all the columns of that value and print it side by side.
Desired output... (15 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to copy and paste the sixth column from a bunch of files into a single file having each column pasted in separate columns (and not one after each other in just one column.)
I tried this code but works only partially because it copied and pasted 50 rows of each column... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Frastra
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paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD