Re: A new 'transpose' coreutil

[Pádraig Brady]

On 17/12/15 16:25, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 12/17/2015 06:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 17/12/15 05:06, Ryan wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I looked through the rejected feature requests and did not find this.
>>> I and others I know have often wished for an efficient 'transpose'
>>
>> Interesting.
> 
> GNU Datamash ( http://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/ ) can transpose files 
> from the command line:
> 
>      $ cat 1.txt
>      Genes   NOX1    DcP     HH
>      Sample  A1      A2      B3
>      Counts  514     542     490
> 
>      $ datamash transpose < 1.txt
>      Genes   Sample  Counts
>      NOX1    A1      514
>      DcP     A2      542
>      HH      B3      490
> 
> In addition to performing other various statistical and text-related 
> operations (in the coming version: also cross-tabulation, a.k.a pivot-tables).

Oh nice,
This project is a better match for any such changes.

BTW I did search for "GNU transpose utility" in various
combinations and didn't notice this.
I suggest to mention it at
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/88142/command-to-transpose-swap-rows-and-columns-of-a-text-file
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1729824/transpose-a-file-in-bash
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/79642/transposing-rows-and-columns

Also maybe apply some SEO to the function names at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/manual/datamash.html

thanks!
Pádraig