About linux : How-to-print-the-results-in-tab-separted-using-linux-commands

for i in `cat /home/htvam/muthu/mbovis/uk_fastq/trim_files/sub_list.txt`
do

   for j in `cat /home/htvam/muthu/mbovis/uk_fastq/trim_files/fn_pos.txt`
   do

        echo "$i\t\c"
        echo "$j\t\c"   
        echo "$(samtools view "$i"_dup_mapped_sorted.bam  NC_000962.3:$j-$j | awk '{if($2<1023) print}' | wc -l)\t\c"
        echo "$(samtools view "$i"_dup_mapped_sorted.bam  NC_000962.3:$j-$j | awk '{if($2>1023) print}' | wc -l)"

done
done

sub_list.txt contains

• ERR125598
• ERR125599

fn_pos.txt contains

• 14401
• 62049
• 71336
• 4386228
• 4394265
• 4395387
• 4395804

It output results like:

But I need the next sample “i” in a list should print the tab instead of newline like