How to increase the total number of columns in a text file

pyramid.122 · 12-11-2017, 11:46 AM

Hi all

I need to increase the increase the number of columns in my .txt file.

Thanks;
Pyramid

rtmistler · 12-11-2017, 12:14 PM

Add more information to the end of each line.

You'll need to post a representative output of some lines of your file and also what you wish to do.

Finally you'll need to indicate what your constraints are, such as you need to try to do this from the shell, or some other means.

Please review some of the advice here to help you learn how to write a better question to allow people to help you better.

schneidz · 12-11-2017, 12:16 PM

^ +1, text files by definition are ascii binary streams with an infinite amount of columns (bytes) record-terminated by ascii-10.

allend · 12-11-2017, 04:51 PM

Perhaps the OP should look at the 'paste' command.

giis · 12-12-2017, 09:38 AM

Agree with allend, check out paste command.

example:

Quote:

$cat file1
line1 col1 col2
line2 col1 col2
line3 col1 col2
$ cat file2
col3
clo3
clo3
$ paste file1 file2
line1 col1 col2 col3
line2 col1 col2 clo3
line3 col1 col2 clo3