On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:18:31PM +0500, Yakov Hrebtov wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > >I am looking for an automatic way of transforming my text file into > >another one with the format > You may try this: > cat ./test.txt | awk '{print $1" "$2; print $1" "$3; print $1" "$4}' | > grep -v ' $' $ awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)printf $1"\t"$i"\n"}' test.txt That's all. or, try this. $ awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)print $1, $i}' test.txt I think awk is the best solution for this problem. Regards, -- ----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7 Mail: hi_saito@xxxxxxxxxxxx