Comments on: How to replace newlines with commas, tabs etc (merge lines) https://bogdan.org.ua/2010/11/16/how-to-replace-newlines-with-commas-tabs-etc-merge-lines.html Tiny bits of bioinformatics, [web-]programming etc Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 By: Bogdanhttps://bogdan.org.ua/2010/11/16/how-to-replace-newlines-with-commas-tabs-etc-merge-lines.html#comment-142284 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:42:56 +0000 http://bogdan.org.ua/?p=1208#comment-142284 Thanks for the feedback, Ben. I actually also prefer ‘cut’ now, unless delimiters are unclear – awk seems to do a better job at automatically identifying what is a delimiter and what is not. Didn’t know you can merge paste’s arguments into one :)

]]> By: buggyhttps://bogdan.org.ua/2010/11/16/how-to-replace-newlines-with-commas-tabs-etc-merge-lines.html#comment-142273 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:52:55 +0000 http://bogdan.org.ua/?p=1208#comment-142273 hello,
thank you for your the pointers, good read. this is my feedback to you and future readers:

instead of
awk '{print $2}'
i prefer
cut -f2 -d" "
as in “cut out field number 2 with delimiter ‘space character’” (if you have tab-delimited data, you can leave this one out as the default is tab-delimited)
it is faster and easier to type

also, some stuff can be shortened for quick typing, such as
paste -s -d ","
becomes
paste -sd,

cheers, ben

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