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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Swapping lines Post 303027821 by vgersh99 on Tuesday 25th of December 2018 12:25:46 PM
Old 12-25-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kibou
@Scrutinizer Unfortunately doesn't work either. I've tried a few modifications but it only prints the first three lines.

@MadeInGermany It works, but for some reason the text is all the way around. The comments at the beginning show at the end.

I don't want to bother you guys that much. I thought this could be easier....
how about:
Code:
awk '{for(i=NF;i;i--) print $i; print RS}' RS= FS='\n' myFile

If not, provide the output of cat -vet myFile using code tags.
Also, what OS are you on?

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