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# 8  
Old 11-16-2010
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Originally Posted by jacks
Many Thanks.
Unfortunate I get an error message - nawk not found. I have mac osx. I donīt have nawk/gawk available.

Is it possible to use awk instead of nawk ?
I also want to use tab separator in output file.
sure, give it a try.
Code:
awk 'FNR>1{for(i=1;i<=NF;i+=2) if ($(i+1)>0.1) print $i,$(i+1)}' OFS='\t' myFile

# 9  
Old 11-16-2010
Tab-separated:
Code:
awk 'NR==1{print $1,$2}FNR==1{i+=2;next}$i>0.1{print $(i-1),$i}' OFS="\t" infile infile infile infile infile

# 10  
Old 11-16-2010
It worked.

Thanks all for the valuable help.
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