Hi - quite simple from the command line; grep BRAIN */report.sienax will extract the line of interest containing "BRAIN" (see the full report.sienax file to see possible things you might want to extract) and * should be replaced by the list of SIENAX output directories and to go further and only extract the first number on that line (if that's what you want), do: grep BRAIN */report.sienax | awk '{print $2}' Cheers. On 29 Jan 2013, at 07:53, Kyoo H. Cho wrote: > Dear Experts, > This might be a question about basic scripting. > It's troublesome to me because I am a novice in programming . > > I ran SIENAX for about 50 subjects. > Then,how can I merge data of "sienax.report" from each subject, and unite into one (such as a textile or table including 50 subjects' total volumes at once)? > What kind of command can I use ? > > (For FreeSurfer, There seems to be a script using asegstats2table for similar situation..) > > Any advice is much appreciated. > Cho > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------