3
votes
3answers
73 views

Transposing rows and columns

I have a file with the lines like below. title1:A1 title2:A2 title3:A3 title4:A4 title5:A5 title1:B1 title2:B2 title3:B3 title4:B4 title5:B5 title1:C1 title2:C2 title3:C3 title4:C4 title5:C5 ...
3
votes
2answers
51 views

get the Xth argument in each line

I would like to get the second argument in a line of output. For example: ps aux gives me an output that contains the cpu-usage %CPU in the third column. How can I filter the output so I have only ...
4
votes
1answer
92 views
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Parsing columnized data

I have some columnized data which I would like to format a little further. It looks like this: $ getStats | grep ESTABLISHED | column -t all tcp 117.54.56.131:80 <- 10.42.100.211:63752 ...
4
votes
2answers
104 views

How to adjust column width in Linux command output

When I used this command on Red Hat Linux /usr/sbin/ss -i I get the following output below: State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port ...
2
votes
2answers
63 views

Extract a column from whitespace-separated fields that are not aligned

How can we extract a column from output in which whitespace is not in a regular format? For example, when we type ps -ef, it shows all the process, process id's.... etc. How can we get only the last ...
0
votes
2answers
141 views

Align columns in ASCII file

I have a text file that looks like his: #c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7 c8 c9 c10 c11 c12 c13 4599 995,274 2523,658 ...
4
votes
2answers
137 views

How can I use column to delimit on tabs and not spaces?

I'd like to use Unix column to format some text. I have fields delimited by tabs, but within each field there are also spaces. column delimits on white space (tabs and spaces). How can I make column ...
2
votes
2answers
73 views

add fields from different files

I have two files A and B with the same number of lines. Each of them has multiple columns. I want to add field 6 in file A with field 3 in file B for each line. e.g.: file A: 2769 RUT10EKl3fY 0 ...
2
votes
1answer
216 views

intersection of two files according to the first column

I have two files in file A, there are sequence_numbers in the other file B, there are many columns, and the first column is sequnce numbers, I want to get a files with all the lines in the B with the ...
1
vote
3answers
116 views

How to sort and join at the same time?

I have 2 files, one having 2 columns, another having 1 column. The second file is sorted using sort -u. Now the task is I need to join this column with the first column of the first file, which is not ...
2
votes
2answers
290 views

How do you truncate all columns in a file to a specific length?

Given columned text in a file that is delimited by a certain character, how do you truncate the width of either a specific column(s) or all columns? The use case is that I am reading some log files ...
6
votes
7answers
255 views

Swapping an unlimited number of columns

I have a file with columns. See below for an example: a b c ... z 1 2 3 ... 26 I'd like to swap all columns where the 1st becomes the last, the second becomes the one before last...etc.. z y x ...
3
votes
2answers
104 views

Column mismatch and substituting

input.txt (tab-delimted) TTTTOTTT00000000008 RTTTT899 5.00E-28 TTTTOTTT00000000046 RTTTWRR 3.00E-31 TTTTOTTT00000000051 2.00E-11 TTTTOTTT00000000051 7.00E-12 TTTTOTTT00000000054 ...
4
votes
4answers
2k views

Compare two files: lines present in one, not in the other, by one column comparison

I need to compare 2 files. Column 1 is the same in both files. Column 2 is what I want to compare: I want all lines in file 1 that are not in file 2 when comparing column 2. Column 3 is different in ...
2
votes
1answer
188 views

text processing-perl

I am a biologist. I would like help of computer experts to help in text file editing. Here is what the input file looks like: ##dsfsd2 ##sdf-sdf sasg 5.6.3 gi34_ex Gen CDS 161 317 . ...
5
votes
3answers
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How can sed output be formatted like printf's formatted printing?

Can sed replace text with a string formatted like printf's formatted printing? The following sed command replaces a line starting with the current value of "$domain" with several values specified in ...
3
votes
5answers
842 views

Add character to beginning and end of column

I have a file like this: 78@54@this@15@23 65@22@is@92@16 34@12@an@14@18 13@42@example@52@22 And I want to change it to this: "78"@54@"this"@15@23 "65"@22@"is"@92@16 "34"@12@"an"@14@18 ...
4
votes
1answer
467 views

Linux sort second last column

I would like know how to sort the second last column ? It has the word "days=" in front of the number. I'm able to get the column with awk '{print $(NF-1)}', but sorting is wrong. 457000 ...