Luca Beltrame
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author: einar
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- General
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- Linux
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- Science
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date: "2006-07-08T08:16:30Z"
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slug: the-power-of-the-shell
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title: The power of the shell
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Yesterday I was trying to adjust some files in order to make a program use Affymetrix SNP arrays data (instead of arrayCGH data like the program was designed for). I had a big (116,000 rows) tab-delimited text file and I needed to use only part of the columns there.
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Most people would just try to use Excel (ugh) but since it has way too many limitations, it is unstable, and runs on Windows, I had to use other ways. The _awk_ command is what I needed, given the fact that my input was a text file:
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[code]awk ' { print $1"\t"$7 } ' CAKI1_CNAT.txt > CAKI-1.txt
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awk ' { print $1"\tchr"$2"\t"$3"\t"$3 } ' CAKI1_CNAT.txt > CAKI-1.ann [/code]
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With two commands I created the two files I needed for the obscure software I was testing and without a single headache. The first one created a file with only columns 1 and 7, while the second only with the first three columns, adding "chr" to the text in the second column.
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A simpler and more elegant solution would have probably been using _cut_ for the first file:
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[code]cut -f1,7 CAKI1_CNAT.txt > CAKI-1.txt[/code]
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Either way, these are things that make my job easier. Try doing that with cmd.exe.
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