Re: [9fans] rows to cols?

[Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>]

> Is there an easy way to transpose the text so that rows become
> columns, and vice versa? Delimiter is space.

If you know in advance the number of rows & colums, it's easy:

term% cat t
one two three four
five six seven eight
nine ten eleven twelve
term%  tr -s ' ' '\xA' <t | pr -t -3 -l4 | tr -s ' ' ' '
one five nine
two six ten
three seven eleven
four eight twelve