On 28.8.2012 21:59, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a CSV file with three fields. > eg. > > a1,b1,c1 > a2,b2,c2 > .... > > I wanted the output to be: > b1,c1,a1 > b2,c2,a2 > .... > > the command > cut -d, -f2,3,1 <file> > > returns > > a1,b1,c1 cut cuts out, that what it does. I think it works exactly as advertised. On my system the manpage says ...snip Selected input is written in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once snap... > Is it specific to linux? No! -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120828/bb550d8f/attachment-0005.sig>