On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:58 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > > cat ./test.txt | awk '{print $1" "$2; print $1" "$3; print $1" "$4}' | grep > > -v ' $' > > Thanks for all suggestions. > > Yakov: can your solution be adapted to the conversion from > > > 1 E E E > 2 C D > 6 > 3 B E D > 4 C E D > 5 D E > > to > > 1 E > 1 E > 1 E > 2 C > 2 D > 6 > 3 B > 3 E > 3 D > 4 C > 4 E > 4 D > 5 D > 5 E Add a pipe to sort on the end of the line. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk