An efficient way to transpose a file in Bash

Question

I have a huge tab-separated file formatted like this

X column1 column2 column3
row1 0 1 2
row2 3 4 5
row3 6 7 8
row4 9 10 11

I would like t

Answer 1

I was looking for a solution to transpose any kind of matrix (nxn or mxn) with any kind of data (numbers or data) and got the following solution:

Row2Trans=number1
Col2Trans=number2

for ((i=1; $i <= Line2Trans; i++));do
    for ((j=1; $j <=Col2Trans ; j++));do
        awk -v var1="$i" -v var2="$j" 'BEGIN { FS = "," }  ; NR==var1 {print $((var2)) }' $ARCHIVO >> Column_$i
    done
done

paste -d',' `ls -mv Column_* | sed 's/,//g'` >> $ARCHIVO