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Old 05-28-2008
swaping of first 2 words in every line using sed
Please any one can help me how to swap first 2 words in every line in a file using sed

Thankk you
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Old 05-28-2008
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What did you try...??
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Old 05-28-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by web123
Please any one can help me how to swap first 2 words in every line in a file using sed

Thankk you
I tried

sed 's/(^\([^]\)\([^]\)/ \2 \1/' {filename}

but it didn't worked
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Old 05-28-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by web123
I tried

sed 's/(^\([^]\)\([^]\)/ \2 \1/' {filename}

but it didn't worked
Use:
Code:
sed -e "s/\([^ ]*\) *\([^ ]*\)/\2 \1 /g" file

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Old 05-28-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by web123
Please any one can help me how to swap first 2 words in every line in a file using sed

Thankk you
Thankyou mate
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