Shell Programming and Scripting

I added cut -f1,5,6 to the end of this statement, and it does a great job of recreating my original, long script with a single line-- neat!

However, it's output is still single column, like this:

Code:

A1 value value
A2 value value
B1 value value
B2 value value
C1 value value
...

I'm still looking for a way to have multicolumn output, like:

Code:

A1 value value B1 value value C1 value value ...
A2 value value B2 value value C2 value value ...
...

Thank you all for the help along the way-- paste is a great new command to use.

You can add the following to the end of your command assuming that the start of the line in will start with "A" :

| awk -F',' '{if($1=="A"){printf("\n" $0)} else {printf("," $0)} }'

I'm admittedly terrible at awk (though I'm starting to learn), so I just blindly copied this in, resulting in:

Code:

A1 value value A2 value value B1 value value B2 value value C1 value value ...

All the data on a single line, and the multiple time points (A1, A2, etc) next to each other.

What I'm trying to get is I fuess file1 processed into line 1, then file2 processed into line 2, etc... Typing this actually gives me an idea of how to accomplish that-- I'll reply to this thread when I try it, and see if it works.

But if anyone has an elegant way to do the trick in the meantime, I'm all ears.

Ok, the fields are delimited by space rather than comma.
Try this :
| awk -F' ' '{if($1=="A"){printf("\n" $0)} else {printf(" " $0)} }'