Hello
i have a text file like this:
1 AB AC AD EE
2 WE TR YT WW
3 AS UY RF YT
the file is bigger , but that's an example of the data
what i want to do is to merge all columns together except the first one,
it will become like this :
1 ABACADEE
2 WETRYTWW
3 ASUYRFYT
how this can be done ??
thanks in advance
use this sed script (assuming there is no : in the data)
s/ /:/
s/ //g
s/:/ /
hello , thanks for your reply , but it did not worked
Another way:
awk '{s=$1;gsub($1 FS,x);$1=$1;print s FS $0}' OFS= file
thanks a lot Franlin52 it worked
An infile replacement:
# cat file
1 AB AC AD EE
2 WE TR YT WW
3 AS UY RF YT
# perl -ni -e '($a,$b)=/^(\S+\s)(.*)/;$b=~s/\s//g;print $a.$b."\n";' file
# cat file
1 ABACADEE
2 WETRYTWW
3 ASUYRFYT
i have another question concerning this data set , should i ask it here ? or open another thread??
I should open a new thread for a new question.
One more way
sed 's/ //g;s/^\([[:digit:]]*\)/\1 /g' infile
regards,
Ahamed