Concatination problem

[demis001]

How can I combine the following inpute sequence as sigle line separated by tab?
data_input:

>cel-miR-49 MIMAT0000020 Caenorhabditis elegans miR-49
AAGCACCACGAGAAGCUGCAGA
>cel-miR-50 MIMAT0000021 Caenorhabditis elegans miR-50
UGAUAUGUCUGGUAUUCUUGGG

I have tried:

awk '/^>/ {print,"\t"; getline; print}' inputdata

did't work!!

Appritiate for sage guide

Dereje

 

[demis001]

I have succeeded just by trail and error
awk '/^>/ {printf $0 ; getline; print $0;}' input

 

[demis001]

Is any one explain to me why "printf" works the job I need while "print" didn't. I haven't do anything except changing print to printf. I apprciate if you do the same job with "print"

>cel-miR-49 MIMAT0000020 Caenorhabditis elegans miR-49 "\t" then sequence

Dereje

 

[PHV]

I'd use the following:

awk '/^>/{x=$0;getline;printf "%s\t%s\n",x,$0}' input

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[Annihilannic]

print always outputs the output record separator (contained in the ORS variable, which defaults to a line feed) after the string that it prints. printf does not.

Annihilannic.