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Old 03-17-2011
Any shell scripts for cutting and pasting part of data?

Hi,

I have a tab-delimited txt file as below. It is part of the original file.

Quote:
##Hello
##Welcome
#C1 C2 C3
1 1 1
2 2 2
3 3 3
3 3 3
I want to cut the lines starting with "3" in column1 and paste them before the lines starting with "1" in column 1. So I will get

Quote:
##Hello
##Welcome
#C1 C2 C3
3 3 3
3 3 3
1 1 1
2 2 2
Anyone knows any simple shell scripts to do that? The original file is too big so I want to just use shell scripts to process that data.

Thanks

-C
 

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