Re: [9fans] rows to cols?

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

> Wow.
> Excellent us of tools.

It's the sort of thing I used to give as an exercise to students.

> The smallest arbitrary-columns answer I could come up with was:
> awk '{if(m < NF)m=NF;for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)r[NR, i]=$i}END {for(i=1;i<=m;i+
> +){for(j=1;j<=NR;j++)printf "%s ", r[j,i];print ""}}' t

Explicit looping looks so strenuous.

To make the tr|pr method more general, you can count columns first with
	sed 1q | wc -b
or if you like
	awk '{print NF;exit}'

Counting rows is left as an exercise to the reader ...