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

[Christopher Bergeron]

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Thanks Geoffrey!  I think I've almost got it, but my output is appearing
like this:

GE CAPITAL CONSUMER LEND\n\tAFS74
GEWARDS\n\tAFS75

Instead of:
GE CAPITAL CONSUMER LEND\tAFS74\n
GEWARDS\tAFS75\n

I have a feeling it's a simple change, but since I'm new to awk I'm a
slow learner...

Thanks again for any leads,
- -CB


Geoffrey wrote:

| Use awk:
|
| awk -F '\t' '{printf "%s\t%s\n", $2, $1}'
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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?
|>
|> Here's an example of my data:
|> ~ <TAB>WOODSTOCK OUTLET<CR>
|> AF100<TAB>METRO AUDIO DYNAMI<CR>
|>
|> 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>
|>
|> Does anyone know of a way I can accomplish this?  I tried using cut
|> - -f2,1 -d"\t" but no adeu...
|>
|> As always, much thanks in advance!
|> - -CB
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