awk BEGIN { FS="\t" } { print $1 } '{print gensub("^\\*\\*", "\\\\**", "g", $0) "\t(sp1_"NR")"}' < wikiniews_results.tsv > reference.trn awk BEGIN { FS="\t" } { print $2 } '{print gensub("^\\*\\*", "\\\\**", "g", $0) "\t(sp1_"NR")"}' < wikiniews_results.tsv > reference.trn sclite -f 0 -r reference.trn trn -h hypothesis.trn trn -e utf-8 -i rm -o all stdout