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POCopy only one column from many text files and create a single new file with tab separated new columns using Python or Bash
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copied!<p>I have many files with the following structures in each: </p> <p>FileOne:</p> <pre><code>1 x 2 r 3 f 4 t : : : : 1000 k </code></pre> <p>SecondFile:</p> <pre><code>1 x 2 r 3 f 4 t : : : : 1000 k </code></pre> <p>There are hundreds of files like this. <em>I need a final output file as tab separated second column of each file</em>:</p> <p>OutputFile:</p> <pre><code>x ..More Columns ... q r ..... w f ..... e t ..... l : : : : </code></pre> <p>I will prefer to use Python or Bash Script. Sorry for this silly question.</p> <p>Here,s the progress I have so far, Created a list of * separated strings for the second coloumn of each file. But <strong>not generating Ideas how to write them</strong> Code:</p> <pre><code>import tkinter.filedialog def FileToString (fin): Result = '' for line in fin: LineList = line.strip().split(' ') Result = Result + '*' + LineList[1] return (Result) File = tkinter.filedialog.askopenfilenames(title='Select the Files you want>> >>> >> >>>>') Filenames = File.split() Result = [] ArrayResult = [] OutPutFileName = tkinter.filedialog.asksaveasfilename(title='Select or Enter Output File >> >>>> >>>>') fout = open(OutPutFileName,'w') for name in Filenames: fin = open(name,'r') FileResult = FileToString(fin) ArrayResult.append(FileResult) </code></pre> <p>Thanks </p>

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