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# 1  
Old 01-16-2012
Transpose Data from Columns to rows

Hello. very new to shell scripting and would like to know if anyone could help me.

I have data thats being pulled into a txt file and currently have to manually transpose the data which is taking a long time to do.

here is what the data looks like.
Code:
Server1 -- Date -- Other -- value
Server1 -- Date -- Other -- value
Server1 -- Date -- Other -- value
Server1 -- Date -- Other -- value

dates range the entire month
What i need it to look like is:
Code:
SERVERS ---  Date --- date --- date --- date
server1         value     value     value      value
server1         value     value     value      value
server1         value     value     value      value

If any one could help that would be great!


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Last edited by zaxxon; 01-16-2012 at 02:17 PM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 01-16-2012
I am going to presume the data is sorted.
Code:
start="Y"
prevserver=""
while read server date other value
do
if [ [ "a$server" != "a$prevserver" ]
then 
    prevserver=$server
    if [ "$start"  = "Y "]
   then
       Start="N"
    else
      echo "\n" 
   fi
 echo $prevserver $value "\c"
fi
echo " " $value "\c"
done<sortedinputfile

# 3  
Old 01-16-2012
so that should place the data from this:


Code:
server3 12/1/2011-10:03 OTHER INFO 4.7
server4 12/1/2011-10:03 OTHER INFO 5.3
server5 12/1/2011-10:03 OTHER INFO 1.1
server6 12/1/2011-10:03 OTHER INFO 6.3

to this:

Code:
      12/1/2011 12/2/2011
server3  4.7     3.4
server4  5.3     3.6
server5  1.1     0.9
server6  6.3     5.6

# 4  
Old 01-16-2012
Close, your input file contains more fields than you specified.
Code:
server4 12/1/2011-10:03 OTHER INFO 5.3



is five fields using white space as the field separator.
So the read statement should change to
Code:
read server datetime other info value

I didn't code for the the heading line.
If the data is not sorted, sort first with
Code:
sort <inputfile >sortedinputfile

# 5  
Old 01-16-2012
sorry the other info is in the same cell when u open it.
# 6  
Old 01-16-2012
how would i get the script to sort the data to something like this and output to a new file:

Code:
      12/1/2011 12/2/2011
server3  4.7     3.4
server4  5.3     3.6
server5  1.1     0.9
server6  6.3     5.6

Keep in mind there are at least 30 days worth of data for each server.

Last edited by Mikes88; 01-16-2012 at 03:52 PM.. Reason: more info
# 7  
Old 01-16-2012
Quote:
sorry the other info is in the same cell when u open it.
Are you opening the file in Excel or something similar, the word "cell" is not generally used in unix/linux.
If you are opening the file in Excel, then only save the servername and value columns to a text file.
Can you show us an exact sample of the data?
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