linux - Spliting file by columns -

i know cut command can cut column(s) file, can use split file multiple files each file named first line in column , there same number of produced files there columns in original file

example (edit)

columns separated tab , can of different length. first file have names of rows.

probe file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt "1007_s_at" 7.84390328616472 7.60792223630275 7.77487266222512 ... 

also thing original file extremely huge, want solution split in 1 run. not calling cut repeatedly

can 1 line of awk:

$ cat test.tsv field1  field2  field3  field4 asdf    asdf    asdf    asdf lkjlkj  lkjlkj  lkjlkj  lkjlkj feh     feh     feh     bmeh  $ awk -f'\t' 'nr==1 {  for(i=1;i<=nf;i++) { names[i] = $i }; next } { for(i=1;i<=nf;i++) print $i >> names[i] }' test.tsv  $ ls field1  field2  field3  field4  test.tsv  $ cat field4 asdf lkjlkj bmeh 

edited include tab separator courtesy of glenn jackman

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addition

removing double quotes fields:

awk -f'\t' 'nr==1 {  for(i=1;i<=nf;i++) { names[i] = $i }; next } { for(i=1;i<=nf;i++) {gsub(/"/,"",$i); print $i >> names[i] }}' example.tsv 

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additional addition

removing double quotes fields, @ start or end of field:

awk -f'\t' 'nr==1 {  for(i=1;i<=nf;i++) { names[i] = $i }; next } { for(i=1;i<=nf;i++) {gsub(/^"|"$/,"",$i); print $i >> names[i] }}' example.tsv