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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Appending the last few columns to the front Post 302212702 by ragavhere on Tuesday 8th of July 2008 06:47:48 AM
Old 07-08-2008
Power Appending the last few columns to the front

Hi

consider this as the first line
00010015 MORGAN STANLEY & CO INCORPORATED N 110 INVESTAR 1 0001OT NJ 201-830-5055 01-Jan-1974 00:00:00 1 01-May-2008 00:00:00 05-Jun-2008 13:34:18 0001 - From SMSRun1_GIDQA02
Consider this as the second line
00010015 MORGAN STANLEY & CO INCORPORATED N 110 INVESTAR 1 0001OT NJ 201-830-5055 01-Jan-1974 00:00:00 1 01-May-2008 00:00:00 05-Jun-2008 13:34:18 0001 egesdegjeog rogjeogje - From SMSRun1_GIDQA02

Here i need to cut "- From SMSRun1_GIDQA02" from the end of each line and need to append it at the front as "From SMSRun1_GIDQA02 - ". So that the output looks like

From SMSRun1_GIDQA02 - 00010015 MORGAN STANLEY & CO INCORPORATED N 110 INVESTAR 1 0001OT NJ 201-830-5055 01-Jan-1974 00:00:00 1 01-May-2008 00:00:00 05-Jun-2008 13:34:18 0001

But the problem here is that the position of "- From SMSRun1_GIDQA02" might vary from line to line since there might be odd number of columns.Can "- From" be taken as a key to cut "- From SMSRun1_GIDQA02" and append it to the front?

Last edited by ragavhere; 07-08-2008 at 07:49 AM.. Reason: Line
 

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COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME
column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored. The options are as follows: -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. -s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. -t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. -x Fill columns before filling rows. column exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred. ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available. EXAMPLES
(echo "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME"; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. BSD
March 9, 2008 BSD
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