I have a program which outputs about 100 columns of data. The first 6
are shown:


UTC 10:53:40 power 30 elevation 23

I want to convert that so it outputs

UCT 10:53:40
power 30
elevation 23
...

Any suggestions?

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:50:19 +0000, Dave wrote:

> I have a program which outputs about 100 columns of data. The first 6
> are shown:
>
>
> UTC 10:53:40 power 30 elevation 23
>
> I want to convert that so it outputs
>
> UCT 10:53:40
> power 30
> elevation 23
> ..
>
> Any suggestions?

Well, if you want to split them pairwise, you could use

awk '{for(i=1;i<NF;i+=2) print $i,$(i+1); }'

If you need more, e.g. you have an odd number of columns, or pairwise is
not exactly what you want then you will need to give us more information.

"Dave" wrote ...
>I have a program which outputs about 100 columns of data. The first 6 are
>shown:
>
>
> UTC 10:53:40 power 30 elevation 23
>
> I want to convert that so it outputs
>
> UCT 10:53:40
> power 30
> elevation 23
> ..

With GNU Awk:

awk 'ORS=NR%2?FS:"\n"' RS="[ \n]" filename


Dimitre

Dave wrote:
> I have a program which outputs about 100 columns of data. The first 6
> are shown:
>
>
> UTC 10:53:40 power 30 elevation 23
>
> I want to convert that so it outputs
>
> UCT 10:53:40
> power 30
> elevation 23
> ..
>
> Any suggestions?


printf "%s %s\n" $( program_that_outputs_data )


Janis