On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 09:33, Paul Smith wrote: > On 10/31/06, Hirofumi Saito <hi_saito@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >I am looking for an automatic way of transforming my text file into > > > >another one with the format > > > You may try this: > > > cat ./test.txt | awk '{print $1" "$2; print $1" "$3; print $1" "$4}' | > > > grep -v ' $' > > > > $ awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)printf $1"\t"$i"\n"}' test.txt > > > > That's all. > > > > or, try this. > > > > $ awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)print $1, $i}' test.txt > > > > I think awk is the best solution for this problem. > > The following command does almost exactly what I want: > > cat ./filename_introduced_user.txt | awk '{print $1" "$2; print $1" > "$3; print $1" "$4; print $1" "$5; print $1" "$6; print $1" "$7; print > $1" "$8; print $1" "$9; print $1" "$10; print $1" "$11; print $1" > "$12; print $1" "$13; print $1" "$14; print $1" "$15; print $1" "$16; > print $1" "$17; print $1" "$18; print $1" "$19; print $1" "$20; print > $1" "$21; print $1" "$22; print $1" "$23; print $1" "$24; print $1" > "$25; print $1" "$26; print $1" "$27}' | grep -v ' $' > > another_filename_introduced_user.txt > > I am wondering whether it is possible to write a script to do the same > but for a number of columns introduced by the user. > > Thanks in advance, If you want to adapt to the columns in the file, this would work: #!/bin/sh while read LINE do set -- $LINE N=$1 while shift do if [ -n "$1" ] then echo $N $1 fi done done If you want to set a limit on the columns you could add a counter on the loop doing the shift and pass a value in on the command line. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list