[ale] swap 2 fields (in a tabbed file)?

[John Wells]

Chris,

You mentioned sorting on the second field?

sort --key=2.1 <file>

should do it.

John

Christopher Bergeron said:
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> Well, ultimately I'd like to do it on the command line using existing
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> Denny Chambers wrote:
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> | You did not specifiy a language in which to do this in, so I will |
> offer up Java, and it's StringTokenizer class
> | (java.util.StringTokenizer). You should be able to do this with just a
> | couple of lines of code.
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> | Denny
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> | Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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> |> Does anyone know how I can swap 2 fields in a tab delimited file |>
> containing 2 fields?
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> |> Here's an example of my data:
> |> ~ <TAB>WOODSTOCK OUTLET<CR>
> |> AF100<TAB>METRO AUDIO DYNAMI<CR>
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> |> What I'd like to do is swap the 2 fields (or do a `sort` based on the
> |> second field!) such that I end up with this:
> |> WOODSTOCK OUTLET<TAB> <CR>
> |> METRO AUDIO DYNAMICS<TAB>AF100<CR>
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> |> Does anyone know of a way I can accomplish this? I tried using cut |>
> - -f2,1 -d"\t" but no adeu...
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> |> As always, much thanks in advance!
> |> - -CB
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