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Old 05-08-2009
How to recognize a string and move it within a line?
Guys, can you pls help?.
My need is to find a string in a line, cut it and append to the end of the line where it was found. I guess the sed command can handle this, but how?..

e.g. in the line

AZOAR1_1_PE2569,HBG316802,partial,Q5P1X0,"Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase protein";"Glutathione reductase protein"

I need to move “,partial” to the end to get

AZOAR1_1_PE2569,HBG316802,Q5P1X0,"Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase protein";"Glutathione reductase protein",partial

Thanks in advance!
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Old 05-08-2009
Code:
echo 'AZOAR1_1_PE2569,HBG316802,partial,Q5P1X0,"Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase protein";"Glutathione reductase protein"' | sed 's/\(.*\),partial\(.*\)/\1\2,partial/'

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Old 05-08-2009
another way
Code:
# echo 'AZOAR1_1_PE2569,HBG316802,partial,Q5P1X0,"Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase protein";"Glutathione reductase protein"' | sed 's/.*\(,partial\).*/&\1/;s/,partial//'

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Old 05-08-2009
Gorgeous Smilie i love unix. Many thanks!
 
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