Hi,
I'm trying to copy and paste the sixth column from a bunch of files into a single file having each column pasted in separate columns (and not one after each other in just one column.)
I tried this code but works only partially because it copied and pasted 50 rows of each column instead of the total number whis is 114.
awk 'FNR==1{f++}{a[f,FNR]=$6}END{for(x=1;x<=FNR;x++){for(y=1;y<ARGC;y++)printf("%s ",a[y,x]);print ""}}' *.label > fname.txt
Thanks!
awk '{printf $6 " "; } END {print ""}' *.label > fname.txt
Thanks for the reply! I tried it but it produced an empty output.
Please post the output of ls -l in the directory you are executing your script.
Try
paste <(cut -d" " -f6 file1) <(cut -d" " -f6 file2) <(cut -d" " -f6 file3)
I can't see any reason why your code snippet should stop working a line 50 - I tried and it worked up to 1400 lines.
francesca@shalimpc:~/Desktop/ROI-scimmie/ROI-scimmie/scimmia-1-Celia/label/FF/V6$ paste <(cut -d" " -f6 rh-FF-V6-10-FF.label) <(cut -d" " -f6 rh-FF-V6-12-FF.label) <(cut -d" " -f6 rh-FF-V6-14-FF.label)
48 48 48
-0.430436 1.800498 1.291823
-0.420545 2.075040 1.187987
-0.372471 1.584477 1.310843
-0.336654 1.733547 1.256660
-0.209870 1.177998 1.238225
-0.155597 1.142074 1.292147
-0.022510 0.566363 1.035261
-0.421321 1.652684 1.335302
-0.428050 1.725078 1.332900
-0.321378 1.382081 1.347380
-0.373038 1.492446 1.420269
-0.133966 0.980780 1.194646
-0.030317 0.677223 1.009947
0.126822 0.069327 0.515428
0.298326 -0.424181 -0.562148
0.251213 -0.469369 -0.344842
0.290995 -0.485099 -0.820039
-0.303998 1.297450 1.422969
-0.275101 1.269499 1.451483
-0.156093 1.061603 1.303209
-0.126584 1.079174 1.382680
0.083088 0.621172 0.888184
0.047205 0.877263 1.151542
0.328560 0.151505 -0.040908
0.277034 0.166088 0.171452
0.320698 -0.023553 -0.304491
0.296364 -0.185507 -0.194502
0.348793 0.288864 -0.547963
0.273967 0.585501 0.629874
0.211306 0.742472 0.897028
0.353276 0.434319 0.038047
0.367151 0.671365 0.380329
0.365127 0.850012 0.694780
0.368822 0.720077 -0.175395
0.365795 0.825067 -0.384303
0.372548 0.654244 -0.585398
0.418335 0.981613 0.186605
0.458616 1.034648 0.462049
0.510201 1.087841 0.616021
0.404362 1.186138 -0.008441
0.376120 1.148764 -0.212652
0.373522 1.050479 -0.393568
0.482250 1.210870 0.334392
0.548836 1.255677 0.440449
0.491018 1.363566 0.172108
0.407628 1.370742 -0.077822
0.389008 1.287857 -0.282209
0.440773 1.432027 -0.093359
francesca@shalimpc:~/Desktop/ROI-scimmie/ROI-scimmie/scimmia-1-Celia/label/FF/V6$ francesca@shalimpc:~/Desktop/ROI-scimmie/ROI-scimmie/scimmia-1-Celia/label/FF/V6$ paste <(cut -d" " -f6 rh-FF-V6-10-FF.label) <(cut -d" " -f6 rh-FF-V6-12-FF.label) <(cut -d" " -f6 rh-FF-V6-14-FF.label)
francesca@shalimpc:~/Desktop/ROI-scimmie/ROI-scimmie/scimmia-1-Celia/label/FF/V6$ awk 'FNR==1 {printf $6 " "; exit; } END {print ""}' *.label > fname.txt
francesca@shalimpc:~/Desktop/ROI-scimmie/ROI-scimmie/scimmia-1-Celia/label/FF/V6$ ls -l
total 200
-rw-rw-r-- 1 francesca francesca 656 Aug 1 14:47 fname_scimmia1_Celia_FF_V6.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 francesca francesca 2 Aug 1 18:47 fname.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5339 Jul 7 14:40 lh-FF-V6-10-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5300 Jul 7 14:43 lh-FF-V6-12-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5215 Jul 7 14:53 lh-FF-V6-14-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5363 Jul 7 16:40 lh-FF-V6-16-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5311 Jul 7 16:43 lh-FF-V6-18-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5277 Jul 7 16:52 lh-FF-V6-20-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5363 Jul 7 17:48 lh-FF-V6-22-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5316 Jul 7 18:08 lh-FF-V6-24-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5340 Jul 7 16:46 lh-FF-V6-2-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5385 Jul 7 18:11 lh-FF-V6-4-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5354 Jul 7 18:14 lh-FF-V6-6-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5291 Jul 7 18:18 lh-FF-V6-8-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5336 Jul 6 19:57 lh-FF-V6-FF-1.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5291 Jul 6 20:00 lh-FF-V6-FF-2.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5253 Jul 6 20:05 lh-FF-V6-FF-3.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 5267 Jul 6 20:10 lh-FF-V6-FF-4.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2213 Jul 3 17:30 rh-FF-V6-10-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2197 Jul 3 17:34 rh-FF-V6-12-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2165 Jul 3 17:40 rh-FF-V6-14-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2196 Jul 3 17:43 rh-FF-V6-16-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2219 Jul 3 17:47 rh-FF-V6-18-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2238 Jul 3 17:56 rh-FF-V6-20-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2244 Jul 3 18:00 rh-FF-V6-22-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2242 Jul 3 18:03 rh-FF-V6-24-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2244 Jul 3 17:51 rh-FF-V6-2-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2244 Jul 3 18:08 rh-FF-V6-4-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2243 Jul 3 18:13 rh-FF-V6-6-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2234 Jul 3 18:17 rh-FF-V6-8-FF.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2242 Jul 7 13:26 rh-FF-V6-FF-1.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2196 Jul 7 13:29 rh-FF-V6-FF-2.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2196 Jul 7 13:33 rh-FF-V6-FF-3.label
-rw-r--r-- 1 francesca francesca 2196 Jul 7 13:37 rh-FF-V6-FF-4.label
Hi Frastra,
Note that the code in your script:
END{for(x=1;x<=FNR;x++) ... ... ...
takes the value of FNR from the last record read from the last input file you are reading.
Unless each of your *.label input files contain exactly the same number of lines, this is probably not what you want.
H rdrtx1,
The exit in your code:
awk '{printf $6 " "; exit; } END {print ""}' *.label > fname.txt
will cause your script to use the contents of the sixth field on the first line of the first input file followed by a space as a
printf
format string (which might or might not be a valid format string), and a newline and then exit your script. Since the ls output shows that the length of your output is two characters, I would assume that the sixth field of the first line of the first input file was empty.