title: paste together specific columns from many .gz files
body: <p>that uncompressed have the same number of lines, and the same number of columns.</p>
  
  <p>All files are located in the same dir.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to pullout every 5-6 column from every file and paste them together without having to dump temp files?</p>
  
  <p>Something like</p>
  
  <pre><code>for i in *.gz
  do
     gunzip -c $i |cut -f5-6 &gt;$i.tmp;
  done
  
  paste *.tmp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>