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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trying to move a column into another position within a sed script Post 302791805 by michaelrozar17 on Tuesday 9th of April 2013 08:21:14 AM
Old 04-09-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
@michaelrozarl7: keyboard jamming?
Should be
Code:
s/\([^,]*,\)\([^,]*,\)\([^,]*,\)/\1\3\2/

Yes, my mistake.
Code:
sed 's/\([^,]*,\)\([^,]*,\)\([^,]*,\)/\1\3\2/' inputfile

 

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