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From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Column shifting
Message-ID: <4310004@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 27 May 89 01:02:54 GMT
References: <68500002@sts>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> I'm wondering if there's been a program written that takes a file and
> outputs that same file except with arbitrary columns shifted over.
> Some examples are:
> 
> input file is: 0123456789
> 
> Move column 7 to column 1: 0712345689

Try:
 sed -e "s/^\(.\)\(.....\)\(.\)/\1\3\2/"
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