Hello fellow monks.
I have a task to do and I was wondering if this can be done or not.
Suppose you have 50 file all named RESULT_FILE.1, RESULT_FILE.2, RESULT_FILE.3 ... until RESULT_FILE_50.
In each file you have 4 names with 4 values: 
Kostas [NUMBER1]
Maria [NUMBER2]
Georgia [NUMBER3]
Nikos [NUMBER4]

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What I wanted to do is to construct a tab-separated file which would look like:
NAME       RESULTS_FILE1   RESULTS_FILE2   RESULTS_FILE3
Kostas        [NUMBER1]      [NUMBER1]       [NUMBER1]
Maria         [NUMBER2]      [NUMBER2]       [NUMBER2]    
Georgia       [NUMBER3]      [NUMBER3]       [NUMBER3]
Nikos         [NUMBER4]      [NUMBER4]       [NUMBER4]

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What I thought unfortunately didn't work out. I used find as Unix command to find all RESULTS_FILE, then I isolated the number after each RESULTS_FILE (i.e. 1 for RESULTS_FILE1, 2 for RESULTS_FILE2 etc) and created small sub-files for each RESULTS_FILE where I printed the numbers for each name and before each number I printed as many TABS as the number of the RESULTS_FILE i, so as, when I concatanate all these subfiles, I would end up with a large one and the numbers for each person would be printed out in the correct column ( I want to paste the data in a spreadsheet)... But, when I contatanated all these small sub-files, I realised that the contents of each sub-file where pasted UNDER the contents of the other (and not side-by-side as I hoped...
Any ideas on how to do it correctly???

In reply to Is this possible by Anonymous Monk

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