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Old 04-11-2012
Rearranging the colums in a tab delimited file
I want to rearrange some of my columns in my dat file; how do i do this using a script

Suppose, I have an input file like this:
Code:
BASENAME	STREETTYPE	PREFIX	SUFFIX	HOUSENUMBER	BUILDUP	ORDER8	ORDER2	ORDER1	ISOCOUNTRYCODE	POSTALCODE
SILVER LAKE	RD		NW	1135	NEW BRIGHTON	RAMSEY		MINNESOTA	USA	55112
8TH	ST		S	3120	WISCONSIN RAPIDS	WOOD		WISCONSIN	USA	54494
COUNTY	ROAD	H	W	2070	MOUNDS VIEW	RAMSEY		MINNESOTA	USA	55112

and I want my output file to look like this:
Code:
PREFIX	BASENAME	STREETTYPE	SUFFIX	HOUSENUMBER	BUILDUP	ORDER8	ORDER2	ORDER1	ISOCOUNTRYCODE	POSTALCODE
NW	SILVER LAKE	RD		1135	NEW BRIGHTON	RAMSEY		MINNESOTA	USA	55112
S	8TH	ST		3120	WISCONSIN RAPIDS	WOOD		WISCONSIN	USA	54494
W	COUNTY	ROAD	H	2070	MOUNDS VIEW	RAMSEY		MINNESOTA	USA	55112

Last edited by joeyg; 04-11-2012 at 04:20 PM.. Reason: please wrap programming and text files in CodeTags
# 2  
Old 04-11-2012
Code:
awk -F'\t' -v OFS="\t" '{ print $3, $1, $2, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11 }' filename > outputfile

# 3  
Old 04-11-2012
Here is a start
Code:
$ awk 'OFS="\t" {print $3,$1,$2,$4}' sample1.txt
PREFIX  BASENAME        STREETTYPE      SUFFIX
RD      SILVER  LAKE    NW
S       8TH     ST      3120
H       COUNTY  ROAD    W

I used tab between fields, although the length of some of your fields could make that delimiter problematic.
# 4  
Old 04-11-2012
Try this awk script...
Code:
awk '{
   if (NR > 1) {
      for (i=1;i<=NF;i++)
          if ($i ~ "^[NEWS]([NEWS])?$") {
             z=$i
             sub($i,"\b",$i)
             print z FS $0
          }
          else {print; next}
   }
   else {z=$1; $1=$3; $3=$2; $2=z; print}
}' file

# 5  
Old 04-11-2012
Code:
awk -F'\t' '{s=$4; $4=$3; $3=$2; $3=$1; $1=s}1' OFS='\t' infile

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