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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk or sed to format text file Post 302484048 by pravin27 on Wednesday 29th of December 2010 12:13:42 PM
Old 12-29-2010
Try this,
Code:
perl -nle 's/^(\d+\s+|\d)(\D+)/\2 \1/g;print $_;' inputfile

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