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How to place Record in a row as a column name?

Hi,

I want to know how to place a particular field availble in a record as the columnname.

HTML Code:

Name,Sam,Age,13,School, StJohn
Name,Rita,Age,12,School, StMichael,
Name,John,Age,14,School, StAnthony

I want the output as

HTML Code:

Name Age School
Sam 13 StJohn
Rita 12 StMichael
John 14 StAnthony

I am not sure how to transpose with help of awk

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awk -F, 'BEGIN{print "Name","Age","School"}{print $2,$4,$6}' sidnow.file

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Hi try:

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awk -F, 'NR==1{print $1,$3,$5}{print $2,$4,$6}' file

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Thanks for the reply guys, however forgot to mention, the number of columns are dynamic. As in it will not be Name, Age, School always. It can Name, Age, School, some other field etc.

How can I dynamically assign the odd numbered fields as the column name for the even numbered fields?

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Try:

Code:

awk -F, '
  NR==1 { 
    s=$1
    for(i=3; i<=NF; i+=2) s=s OFS $i
    print s
  }
  {
    s=$2
    for(i=4; i<=NF; i+=2) s=s OFS $i
    print s
  }
' file

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Or with a function

Code:

awk -F, 'function prt(start){for (i=start; i<=NF-2; i+=2) printf "%s ",$i; print $i} NR==1 {prt(1)} {prt(2)}' file

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Code:

awk -F, '
NR==1   {DL = ""
         for (i=1; i<=NF; i+=2) {printf "%s%s", DL, $i
                                 DL = FS
                                }
         printf "\n"
        }
        {DL = ""
         for (i=2; i<=NF; i+=2) {printf "%s%s", DL, $i
                                 DL = FS
                                }
         printf "\n"
        }
' file

---------- Post updated at 01:23 ---------- Previous update was at 01:20 ----------

or, even better:

Code:

awk -F, '
NR==1   {for (i=1; i<NF; i+=2)  printf "%s%s", $i, FS
         printf "%s\n", $i
        }
        {for (i=2; i<NF; i+=2)  printf "%s%s", $i, FS
         printf "%s\n", $i
        }
' file

---------- Post updated at 01:24 ---------- Previous update was at 01:23 ----------

Too late, MadeInGermany's function approach beats this clumsy one by far.

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