[CentOS] Cut command behaviour - bug or feature

Wed Aug 29 07:23:21 UTC 2012
Philippe Naudin <philippe.naudin at supagro.inra.fr>

Le mer. 29 août 2012 01:44:48 CEST, Rajagopal Swaminathan a écrit:

> Greetings,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:36 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >
> > I've never been that good with cut. I'm going to see the author, Dave
> > Ihnat this weekend, who sometimes shows up here... but in the meantime,
> > you might use
> > awk 'BEGIN {FS=",";}{print $2 "," $3 "," $1;}' infile
> >
> 
> I tried it on an xp box with GnuWin32 binaries. It barked some error
> showing the single quote.
> 
> I will try on a centos box later (<grin>which I am silently injecting
> [installing] into that env after handwaving the xp</grin>).

You can also try with bash :
while IFS="," read A B C ; do echo "$B,$C,$A" ; done < infile

Regards,

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Philippe Naudin