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Old 03-29-2005
File Manipulation (Move Column Position)
Hi All,
I have a comma separated value (.CSV) file like the one below. The file contains about 20000 lines.

FileName
EmpNo,Name,Age,Sex,Band,Spouse,Children,Salary,
1000,Arnold,24,M,B,N.A.,No,10000,
1001,Jenny,27,F,C,John,2,20000,
...................................

What i need is to make a new file which has Salary as the fourth column.

FileName2
EmpNo,Name,Age,Salary,Sex,Band,Spouse,Children,
1000,Arnold,24,10000,M,B,N.A.,No,
1001,Jenny,27,20000,F,C,John,2,
..........................................

How can we accomplish this by making use of "awk"? Any sample code is most welcome..

Thanks in advance,
Ultimate
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Old 03-29-2005
awk -F, -v OFS=, '{ print $1,$2,$3,$4,$8,$5,$6,$7 }'
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