I am having a little trouble with pasting files. I have three files
temp1
F gge0006x
D 12-30-2006
T 14:05:23
S a69
B 15.4
M gge06001
P 30.8
Q 19.2
R 1006.2
U 1012.7
X 36.2
A 38.994
G 107.71
H 8.411
O 37.084
C 7.537
K 28.198
W 212.52
L 68.1
temp2
gge0006y
12-30-2006
14:05:55
a69
15.3
gge06001
30.6
21.1
1006.6
1014.6
36.1
38.994
107.71
8.433
36.705
7.621
27.623
210.51
68
and temp3
gge0006z
12-30-2006
14:06:28
a69
15.7
gge06001
30.3
23.5
1008
1014.1
36.6
38.994
107.71
8.434
36.508
7.546
27.574
208.08
67.6
I am looking to have a single file that looks something like
F gge0001x gge0001y gge0001z
D 12-30-2006 12-30-2006 12-30-2006
T 14:15:20 14:15:55 14:16:27
S a69 a69 a69
B 15.8 16.1 15
M gge06001 gge06001 gge06001
P 30.1 29.6 29.9
Q 20.2 22.3 23.4
R 1006.2 1003.5 999.8
U 1011.8 1011.8 1005
X 34.7 35.2 35.1
A 38.994 38.994 38.994
G 107.71 107.71 107.71
H 8.395 8.406 8.368
O 37.141 36.823 36.621
C 7.55 7.532 7.437
K 28.193 27.902 27.856
W 212.86 210.15 207.15
L 68.3 67.9 67.6
Yet when I go to paste using paste -d" " temp1 temp2 temp3 I get:
gge0006zx
12-30-20066
14:06:283
a699
15.74
gge060011
P 30.8 30.6 30.3
Q 19.2 21.1 23.5
R 1006.2 1006.6 1008
U 1012.7 1014.6 1014.1
36.62
A 38.994 38.994 38.994
G 107.71 107.71 107.71
H 8.411 8.433 8.434
O 37.084 36.705 36.508
C 7.537 7.621 7.546
K 28.198 27.623 27.574
W 212.52 210.51 208.08
L 68.1 68 67.6
Which leads me to think that there are some unseen spaces spaces in my files or something like that as I had to sort and copy these three files from other files. I am also missing data, so I am not sure what is going on there either... If it is the case that there are spaces that I cannot see, is there a way to clear these so that I can get a desirable result?
Any help would be great. Thank you
sed -n l filename
– Philippos Oct 11 '17 at 7:32