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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Swapping or switching 2 lines using sed Post 302250105 by radoulov on Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 05:40:34 PM
Old 10-22-2008
Could you post the output of the following commands (copy/paste from your terminal):
Code:
printf "%d\n" 1 2 3 |
awk 'NR == ln1, NR == ln2 {
  _[++c] = $0
  if (NR == ln2 && j = c)
    while (++i <= c)
      print _[NR ~ "^("ln1"|"ln2")$"?j--:i]
  next
}1' ln1=1 ln2=3

Or if your shell supports process substitution:

Code:
% awk 'NR == FNR {
  if (NR ~ "^("ln1"|"ln2")$")
    _[++c] = $0
  next
  }
FNR ~ "^("ln1"|"ln2")$" { $0 = _[c--] }
1' ln1=1 ln2=3 <(printf "%d\n" 1 2 3) <(printf "%d\n" 1 2 3)
3
2
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