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Old 03-30-2011
Suggestion to convert data in rows to data in columns
Hello everyone!
I have a huge dataset looking like this:
Code:
nameX nameX 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 ...............       
nameY nameY 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 .....
nameB nameB 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 .....
 (can be several thousands of codes)

and I need to get in output

Code:
nameX      nameY      nameB
nameX      nameY      nameB
0            2           0
1            2           1
2            2           2

Could you help in this? I am new (as many who asks for help) in unix
Thank you for ur time in advance
with regards
ksuh
Last edited by joeyg; 03-30-2011 at 01:51 PM.. Reason: Please use CodeTags to wrap data and commands
# 2  
Old 03-30-2011
Please note that I tried to reformat your data, since it looked like some formatting got lost in your posting. Please verify, as the input layout will have a big effect on solutions.
# 3  
Old 03-30-2011
Thank u for that quick fedback!! The input file presents itself
"name name' following by thousands figures then space then next "name name" following by figures (lets say one extra long row with spaces which separate "name name 0 2 0 1 2 2 1 .." blocks).
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Old 03-30-2011
Put this is a file - testawk.awk

Code:
{
for (i=1;i<=NF;i++)
{
 arr[NR,i]=$i;
 if(big <= NF)
  big=NF;
 }
}
 
END {
  for(i=1;i<=big;i++)
   {
    for(j=1;j<=NR;j++)
    {
     printf("%s\t",arr[j,i]);
    }
    printf("\n");
   }
}

awk -f testawk.awk testfile
This User Gave Thanks to rdcwayx For This Post:
kush
# 5  
Old 03-31-2011
Thanks a lot to rdcwayx!

The thing is that this commad you have written here works, but in the end im getting same file, unfortunately, i mean, again rows instead of columns (does it overwrite the initial file?).
thank u very much! and sorry if i have asked something wrong!
kush
# 6  
Old 04-01-2011
Take a look at this site, it has awk and perl solution.

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...using-awk.html
# 7  
Old 04-01-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by kush
Thanks a lot to rdcwayx!

The thing is that this commad you have written here works, but in the end im getting same file, unfortunately, i mean, again rows instead of columns (does it overwrite the initial file?).
thank u very much! and sorry if i have asked something wrong!
kush
Code:
awk -f testawk.awk testfile > temp
mv temp testfile

 
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