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Old 03-18-2009
AWK program

Hi all,

I have the following problem and hope someone could help me.

I have 184 files, each with 5 columns (c1, c2, c3, c4, c5). I am only interrested in column 5, and would like to paste column 5 from all the 184 files into one file. I have tried the following with two files

awk '{print $5)' file1 file2 | paste -d" " >! a06.txt

The above command line does work, but it pastes colum 5 in one column in the new file (a06.txt). I want it to do it side by side, i.e. c5file1 c5file2, instead of c5file1
c5file2
At the end, I expect to have a file with c5file2 c5file2 c5file3....c5file184.

Thanks for your help!
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Old 03-18-2009
You have posted this request in the incorrect area of the forums. I'll think about the solution and get back to you once a moderator has moved the thread.
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Old 03-18-2009
Thanks!

I am new to the forum, and could not figure out where to add new post.

awkliker
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Old 03-18-2009
thread moved

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Originally Posted by wabard
You have posted this request in the incorrect area of the forums. I'll think about the solution and get back to you once a moderator has moved the thread.
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Old 03-18-2009
This smells like homework, but here is some of the answer. First I would set up a loop to go from 1...184 and dump the awk results to a file say 'result.txt'. Next I would use the paste command to put them in your desired format.
But for the way you have listed the problem here is the answer
awk '{print $5}' file1 ...... file184>result.txt;paste -s a06.txt
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Old 03-18-2009
Sorry it is late here. I made a typo. Here is the answer
awk '{print $5}' file1 ...... file184>result.txt;paste -s result.txt > a06.txt
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Old 03-18-2009
not tested but I would would

Code:
awk '{print $5}' file* >> result.txt


What is the "desired" format?
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