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Old 02-01-2013
awk command help

Hi All,

I am trying to write one command but failing to do so..

Input:

Code:
1 a 4
2 b 5
3 c 6

Output
Code:
     4 5 6
1 a
2       b
3            c

Kindly assist

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-01-2013 at 04:27 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 02-01-2013
what command you tried?
# 3  
Old 02-01-2013
I need output in below format but not able to think how to write

Attached is the txt format for output file. i tried to type with space here but its not accepting.

Last edited by ravi_agarwalla; 02-01-2013 at 04:08 AM..
# 4  
Old 02-01-2013
use code tag

https://www.unix.com/how-post-unix-li...code-tags.html

Is it home work ?

---------- Post updated at 04:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:25 PM ----------

Code:
$ nawk '{a[i++]=$NF;for(j=i;j>=0;j--)c=c" ";data=data"\n"$1c$2;next}END{for(b=0;b<i;b++){printf "  "a[b]" "}print data}' input.txt
  4   5   6 
1  a
2     b
3         c

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# 5  
Old 02-01-2013
Code:
Hi itkamaraj,

Thanks as it worked. 

Can you please explain me how it is working so that i can also try some other possible things.

I am looking for some report purpose.

---------- Post updated at 03:42 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:45 AM ----------

Code:
Hi

 I am looking someone to help me out as how the above command will work. Thanks in Advance.

# 6  
Old 02-01-2013
Here is how it works:
Code:
awk ' {
        a[i++]=$NF;                     # Set array: a incremented by index i value to last field of current record. [ Stores values 4 5 6 ]
        for(j=i;j>=0;j--)               # For loop to define variable: c with blank spaces
                c=c" ";
        data=data"\n"$1c$2;             # Set data = data which is intially null -- newline -- first field -- blank spaces in c -- second field
        next;                           # Skip processing current record.
} END {
        for(b=0;b<i;b++) {
                printf "  "a[b]" "      # Print blank spaces -- array a [ print values 4 5 6 ]
        }
        print data                      # Print variable data
}' input.txt

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