[CentOS] Cut command behaviour - bug or feature

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