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Old 02-09-2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by H2OBoodle View Post
Anyway, I've tried "sort" and some awk, but still no joy.
you should show how you did that.
anyway, have a go at it
Code:
awk '
 {
  for(i=NF;i>0;i--){
      # fill in the blanks
  }
 }
' file