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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)"  <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:43:00 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rows to cols?
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> Is there an easy way to transpose the text so that rows become
> columns, and vice versa? Delimiter is space. Perhaps in AWK?

If Richard's trick won't work, grab contrib/lyndon/transpose.c.

It's dog slow (actually, avl(2) is), but its effectively
unbounded for the input dataset size.

--lyndon

P.S. Never underestimate the power of C.