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1 total messages Started by Mustafa Syed Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:19

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Author: Mustafa Syed
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:19

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	I have just started to use awk so am still not clear about a lot
	of awk utilities. I am presently using awk in a very basic mode to
	clean up the output of another program and get only needed columns
	of data. Now I want to get the data in multiple column format as
	shown below:

	Raw data:
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd

	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd

	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd

	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd

	current refinement:
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd

	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd

	.........

	needed refinement:
	rrrr dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd .........
	rrrr dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd .........
	rrrr dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd .........
	rrrr dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd .........

	Is there a way to do this as a single refinement or even 2 step
	refinement? Also I have many such data files, right now I just
	run the awk file on each one on console. Is it possible to specify
	several data input files in awk executable file and then just run
	it once!

	Thanks,

	Mustafa Syed.

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