How to convert rows to columns in unix

Question

I want my Unix file output, which has each value output on a new line, to be converted into grouped rows as shown below.

Say my output file in Unix looks like this:

Answer 1

Kind of ugly, but doesn't require a shell script:

cat outputfile | tr "\n" " " | sed -e 's/\W*\(\w*\) \(\w*\) \(\w*\) \(\w*\)\W*/\1 \2 \3 \4\n/g'