awk 'BEGIN { FS="\t" } {print gensub("^\\*\\*", "\\\\**", "g", $2) "\t(sp1_"NR")"}' wikiniews_results.tsv > reference.trn awk 'BEGIN { FS="\t" } {print gensub("^\\*\\*", "\\\\**", "g", $3) "\t(sp1_"NR")"}' wikiniews_results.tsv > hypothesis.trn sclite -f 0 -r reference.trn trn -h hypothesis.trn trn -e utf-8 -i rm -o all stdout >> out.txt