You can do this in perl by reading stuff into a two-dimensional array
and then printing it out in the other order. Awk only has 1D arrays I
believe. 

Perry

Lubos Vrbka <shnek@chemi.muni.cz> writes:

> hi guys,
> 
> does in netbsd exist any utility that would convert column-formatted
> text file to row-formatted text file? (eqivalent to matrix
> transposition, i.e.:
> 
> 1 2 3 4 5		1 a b c d
> a a a a a		2 a b c d
> b b b b b	to	3 a b c d
> c c c c c 		4 a b c d
> d d d d d		5 a b c d
> 
> or is it possible to force awk to process columns and not rows?
> 
> regards,
> lubos
> 
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