At 2:28 PM -0600 11/21/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: >> >> 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. >How about something like "echo $2 $1"? That will work if cut's output doesn't need to be quoted, that is, if it doesn't contain arbitrary characters. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>