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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Swapping or switching 2 lines using sed Post 302249925 by LaTortuga on Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 11:03:13 AM
Old 10-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
To swap line 3 with line 10:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
 
line=3
line1=10
 
awk -v var="$line" -v var1="$line1" 'NR==var {
  s=$0
  for(i=var+1;i<var1;i++){
    getline;s=$0"\n"s
  }
  getline;print;print s
  next
}1' file

Regards

Thanks that works perfectly!Smilie
 

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