OT: a problem about text manipulation

[Joe Klemmer]

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.

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