title: paste same column from multiple files into one
body: <p>I have around 50 tab-delimited files of which I want to print column $7 to a new file. All files have the same amount of columns and the same amount of lines. In the output the columns from the different files should be pasted next to each other, seperated by tab. </p>
  
  <p>I was thinking to use a combination of 'ls', 'xargs' and 'awk'. So ls to find all the file I want, then awk for printing the 7th column and create output.txt</p>
  
  <pre><code>ls /folder/*_name.txt | awk '{print $7}' xargs {} &gt; output.txt
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  <p>My main issue is the use of xargs and how to print all $7 in different columns in the output file</p>