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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Taking nth column and putting its value in n+1 column using awk Post 302963467 by Don Cragun on Thursday 31st of December 2015 01:57:18 AM
Old 12-31-2015
Since for index in array_name produces the index list in an unspecified order, the order of the output subfields will not necessarily be in the same order as the subfields in the input when using RavinderSingh13's suggested script. If that matters for your application, you could try something more like:
Code:
awk -v FromField=4 -v ToField=5 '
BEGIN {	FS = OFS = "|"
}
{	n = split($ToField, f, /,/)
	o = ""
	for(i = 1; i <= n; i++)
		o = o $FromField f[i] (i < n ? "," : "")
	$ToField = o
}
1' file

If you are using a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk.
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