28 Aug
2012
28 Aug
'12
11:52 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:29:05AM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
a1,b1,c1 a2,b2,c2
cut -d, -f2,3,1 <file>
Will not work. The "-f" flag specifies what columns; not the order. Everyone makes that mistake once :-)
In that case how do I go about swapping two columns? I do not think a gazzillion byte gui is required.
Use "awk" awk -F, '{print $2 "," $3 "," $1}'
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rgds
Stephen