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# 8  
Old 03-05-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Are they sorted, and guaranteed not missing any rows? You could just use paste.
I cannot get it work in bash. the error message:
Code:
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `/ZE_1=/,""'

# 9  
Old 03-05-2015
My program, on reflection, isn't even close to what you want anyway.

paste might be closer, if your data is all in the same order and guaranteed not missing any rows.

Is it?

Please answer my question. It's relevant.
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# 10  
Old 03-05-2015
yes. the data for all formatted in same order and not missing any rows and any column.
Sorry for my bad English and I didn't read the question.
will it be possible to give an output as below?
Code:
                                         file1                   file2
feco4_s_BB95.log        -1717.5206260 -1717.2394670
feco4_t_BB95.log        -1717.5169250 -1717.2382150
feco5_s_BB95.log        -1830.9322060 -1830.6170990

# 11  
Old 03-05-2015
I will do this in 3 steps.

1. Extracting the first column from any of the files, add a blank line and store in a file.
Code:
awk 'NR==1{print ""} {print $1}'  file1 > ../tmpcol1

2. Paste all col2 side by side from all files with file-names as headers.

Code:
awk '
            FNR == 1 {
                    c += 1
                    d = FILENAME
                    sub ( /\/.*/, X, d )
                    D[c] = d
            }
            {
                    A[c,FNR] = $2
                    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
                    }
            }
'  * > allcol2

3. Paste the 1st column from step 1 and delete it.

Code:
paste ../tmpcol1 allcol2 > final_file
rm ../tmpcol1

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# 12  
Old 03-05-2015
Thanks! it does the trick!

---------- Post updated at 02:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:19 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
My program, on reflection, isn't even close to what you want anyway.

paste might be closer, if your data is all in the same order and guaranteed not missing any rows.

Is it?

Please answer my question. It's relevant.
Thanks Corona688! yes, "Paste" also does the trick very effectively. This functional is exactly what I expected at the very beginning, which could paste the column from multiple files into a table sheet. However, I didn't know there is a command like "Paste". Now, everything become simple. Thanks again for your help!
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