UNIX Command Line

I have already posted about performing transpose of a matrix using Awk in my earlier posts post1 and post2 . This example shows a not so efficient way of achieving the same.

Input file:

$ cat file.txt 
 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                                                                                                                      
32420 testuser 20   0 1219m 969m  49m R   34 12.1   1043:14 worker

Required output:

PID 32420
USER testuser
PR 20
NI 0
VIRT 1219m
RES 969m
SHR 49m
S R
%CPU 34
%MEM 12.1
TIME+ 1043:14
COMMAND worker

$ for i in $(seq 12); do awk -v X=$i '{print $X}' file.txt | paste - - ; done

Related posts:
- How to access external variable in Awk and SED
- Generate bash loop arguments using seq command
- UNIX seq command format option example
- Some good usage of UNIX paste command
- Compare two numeric fields of two files in Bash