Tony Nelson wrote:
yes, i now appreciate that cut's behaviour is the very efficient
technique of treating the data as a one-way stream, so i'm good with
that. so lay off already. ya hear me?? LAY OFF!!!
...
This all rather begs the question of what tool to use after cut in order to
reorder the fields? Don't pretend the answer is sed or awk, or their ilk.
If you'd rather pretend that more suitable tools don't exist, cut each
field you want into its own file, then use paste to glue them back in
the order you want. Be careful to use suitable tmp names so concurrent
runs don't break.
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Les Mikesell
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