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How to print multi-line variables in side-by-side columns in sh?
This question is based on a similar question on Ask Ubuntu, but instead of bash, I would like to have similar output in sh. No issue in bash; it works as expected. wolf@linux:~$ echo $SHELL /usr/bin/...
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How to solve the alignment problem of the columns in a text file after copy and paste?
I copied column 7,8 and 9 from file 1 into columns 7,8 and 9 in file 2 producing a new file 3. the produced file (file 3) is not aligned as the original files, How can I edit it to preserve the ...
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How to add a column with a number or string that changes every time it finds a number on other column?
I have a file with different columns (three in this simplified example). The rows contain data of different replicates (Replicate_A, Replicate_B, Replicate_C). However, there is not the same amount of ...
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Remove and replace column
I have a file which looks like this: 1 1 2 5.24 3 12.46 4 21.56 and so on. I need to change it to: 1 1 3 5.24 5 12.46 7 21.56 on a quick way. So the first column has to have odd values 2i+1 for i ...
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How to add a column if line contains string?
If I have a tab-delimited file containing the following lines: Sample1-Baboon 1 2 3 4 Sample2-Human 1 2 3 4 Sample3-Human 1 2 3 4 Sample4-Baboon 1 2 3 4 How can I add a new column ...
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A shell tool to “tablify” input data containing ANSI escape codes
I have input containing ANSI color codes that I'd like to tablify. I want the output to remain colored, so the tablified output should maintain the ANSI color codes. Hence, naively stripping them away ...
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shell script to print rows if there is a value in column 2
1 2 3 4 3 1 4 2 1 4 3 2 4 2 1 3 How can I print all rows, on which there is a 2 in the second column.
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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 ...
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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 (...
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