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# 1  
Old 03-11-2013
Transpose from 2nd column till the last column
Hi

I have 5 columns like this

Code:
a b c d e
f g h i j
k l m n o

From 2nd column till the 5th column of every record, I would like to transpose them as rows, so my output file contains only one row

Code:
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o

Thanks
# 2  
Old 03-11-2013
I tried this

Code:
echo "a b c d e
f g h i j
k l m n o" | tr ' ' '\n'

gave me the expected results Smilie
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jacobs.smith
# 3  
Old 03-11-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by PikK45
I tried this

Code:
echo "a b c d e
f g h i j
k l m n o" | tr ' ' '\n'

gave me the expected results Smilie
Thanks Pikk45, but my input file has more than 2000 columns.
# 4  
Old 03-11-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by jacobs.smith
Thanks Pikk45, but my input file has more than 2000 columns.
So? tr doesn't care. It just deals char by char, so it can handle rows and columns of any size.
# 5  
Old 03-11-2013
Is this taking too much to print??

try sed -e 's/\s/\n/g' file
# 6  
Old 03-11-2013
That's ironic, since sed may have problems with huge lines, but tr never will!
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PikK45
# 7  
Old 03-11-2013
Thanks for the information Smilie
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