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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with sed Command Post 302900635 by mylife2185 on Thursday 8th of May 2014 02:04:51 AM
Old 05-08-2014
Help with sed Command

I have to rearrange the fields so that the fields are separated by a specific delimiter and come in this order: state, last name, first name, city.

Code:
Mickey Mouse, 1111 Disney Dr., Orlando FL
Minnie Mouse, 1112 Disney Dr., Anaheim CA
Adam Voter, 902 Biscayne Blvd., Miami FL
Zelda Bosco, 4000 State St., Chicago IL
Susie Green, 799 15th St., Indianapolis IN
Tom Furter, 800 N. Walsh St., Milwaukee WI
Dave Ile, 111 W. Illinois Ave., Madison WI
Sam Karter, 1400 E. 57th St., Los Angeles CA
Howard Messer, 5957 W. 157th St., Orland Park IL
Ogden Nash, 2800 S. Lake St., Berkeley IL
Penelope Ogden, 1527 W. Aurora Rd., Naperville IL
Harvey Pelican, 800 N. Lake Shore Dr. #134, Michigan City IN
Tawanda Rice, 1027 Belmont Place, West Palm Beach FL
Kendall Smith, 2231 W. 13th St., Madison WI
Byron Trapp, 5 S. Maple Dr., Indianapolis IN
Milton Callahan, 333 Cordoba Rd., Schaumburg IL
Dominique Daniels, 771 W. 77th Ct., Gary IN
Vickie Edison, 14251 W. Central, Milwaukee WI
Gandalf Addison, 200 Palm Drive, Jupiter FL
Gollum Zeller, 908 Martin Pl., Tampa FL
Jenilee Harrison, 511 River Rd., San Francisco CA
Waylon Jetson, 111 Skyway Dr., Green Bay WI

But it have to look like this...

Code:
FL:Mouse:Mickey:Orlando
CA:Mouse:Minnie:Anaheim
FL:Voter:Adam:Miami
IL:Bosco:Zelda:Chicago
IN:Green:Susie:Indianapolis
WI:Furter:Tom:Milwaukee
WI:Ile:Dave:Madison
CA:Karter:Sam:Los Angeles
IL:Messer:Howard:Orland Park
IL:Nash:Ogden:Berkeley
IL:Ogden:Penelope:Naperville
IN:Pelican:Harvey:Michigan City
FL:Rice:Tawanda:West Palm Beach
WI:Smith:Kendall:Madison
IN:Trapp:Byron:Indianapolis
IL:Callahan:Milton:Schaumburg
IN:Daniels:Dominique:Gary
WI:Edison:Vickie:Milwaukee
FL:Addison:Gandalf:Jupiter
FL:Zeller:Gollum:Tampa
CA:Harrison:Jenilee:San Francisco
WI:Jetson:Waylon:Green Bay

I'm using Unix/Linux for the first time and i'm really having problems can you help me. Thank You

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-08-2014 at 03:07 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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CUT(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    CUT(1)

NAME
cut -- select portions of each line of a file SYNOPSIS
cut -b list [-n] [file ...] cut -c list [file ...] cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The cut utility selects portions of each line (as specified by list) from each file and writes them to the standard output. If the file argument is a single dash ('-') or no file arguments were specified, lines are read from the standard input. The items specified by list can be in terms of column position or in terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column numbering starts from 1. list is a comma or whitespace separated set of increasing numbers and/or number ranges. Number ranges consist of a number, a dash (-), and a second number and select the fields or columns from the first number to the second, inclusive. Numbers or number ranges may be preceded by a dash, which selects all fields or columns from 1 to the first number. Numbers or number ranges may be followed by a dash, which selects all fields or columns from the last number to the end of the line. Numbers and number ranges may be repeated, overlapping, and in any order. It is not an error to select fields or columns not present in the input line. The options are as follows: -b list The list specifies byte positions. -c list The list specifies character positions. -d string Use the first character of string as the field delimiter character. The default is the <TAB> character. -f list The list specifies fields, separated by the field delimiter character. The selected fields are output, separated by the field delimiter character. -n Do not split multi-byte characters. -s Suppresses lines with no field delimiter characters. Unless specified, lines with no delimiters are passed through unmodified. EXIT STATUS
cut exits 0 on success, 1 if an error occurred. SEE ALSO
paste(1) STANDARDS
The cut utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2''). BSD
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