Shell Programming and Scripting

for dir in *
do
[ -d "$dir" ] && paste all 5th cols (side by side) from all files with name xyz
done

more dir1/xyz

1 2 3 4 5
11 22 33 44 55

more dir2/xyz
6 7 8 9 10
66 77 88 99 1010

more dir3/xyz
11 12 13 14 15

dir1 dir2 dir3
5 10 15
55 1010

awk '
        FNR == 1 {
                c += 1
        }
        {
                A[c,FNR] = $5
                m = m < FNR ? FNR : m
        }
        END {
                while ( ++j <= m )
                {
                        while ( ++i <= c )
                        {
                                printf "%s\t", A[i,j]
                        }
                        printf "\n"
                        i = 0
                }
        }
' dir[1-3]/xyz*

awk '
        FNR == 1 {
                c += 1
                d = FILENAME
                sub ( /\/.*/, X, d )
                D[c] = d
        }
        {
                A[c,FNR] = $5
                m = m < FNR ? FNR : m
        }
        END {
                while ( ++k <= c )
                        printf "%s\t", D[k]
                printf "\n"

                while ( ++j <= m )
                {
                        while ( ++i <= c )
                        {
                                printf "%s\t", A[i,j]
                        }
                        printf "\n"
                        i = 0
                }
        }
' */xyz*