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Old 02-04-2010
awk: process file
Hello, i have a file as below:
...
AAA: 1
BBB: 2
CCC: 3

AAA: 11
BBB: 22
CCC: 33

AAA: 111
BBB: 222
CCC: 333
....
how to process it by using AWK to this:
(AAA BBB CCC)
....
1 11 111
2 22 222
3 33 333
....


thank in advance for your help.
Last edited by 0916981; 02-04-2010 at 05:38 AM.. Reason: editing title
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Old 02-04-2010
Looks like all you want is to convert columns into rows, right? So if your file is named row.data, try this.
Code:
awk '{
 arr[$1]=arr[$1]" "$2
}
END {
 for ( i in arr) {
  print i,arr[i]
 }
}
' row.data

The output is reversed, but I guess that should be fine, right?
Last edited by pludi; 02-04-2010 at 03:17 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
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Old 02-04-2010
It worked perfectly. Thank linuxpenguin.
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