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a_bahreini

03-26-2014 11:22 AM

Ok this is what I have done based on what schneidz said. Here I've cut all the columns:

Code:

cut -f 0- myfile

I just don't know how to paste columns into different files so I can sort with this:

Code:

sort -f '|' -k3

schneidz

03-26-2014 11:38 AM

here is what i get when i run you cut command:

Code:

[schneidz@hyper ~]$ cat bahreini.txt 

2|3|40|50        21|32|60|70

12|40|30|60        34|21|50|80

43|33|20|21        54|23|70|56

[schneidz@hyper ~]$ cut -f 0- bahreini.txt 







[schneidz@hyper ~]$

personally, i would run the cut command like this:

Code:

[schneidz@hyper ~]$ cut -f 1 bahreini.txt | tee bahreini.1

2|3|40|50

12|40|30|60

43|33|20|21

[schneidz@hyper ~]$ cut -f 2 bahreini.txt | tee bahreini.2

21|32|60|70

34|21|50|80

54|23|70|56

a_bahreini

03-26-2014 11:45 AM

Thanks schneidz but I can do this with awk too. Do you expect me to do that for 41 fields individually?!! I was looking for a simpler solution.

grail

03-26-2014 08:05 PM

Did you try my suggestion? Assuming latest version of awk (4+) you could easily do multi-dimensional arrays on the fly and process everything in the END section.

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