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stephenfu1@gmail.com

2005-10-24, 3:45 pm

Hi

If i have a file that contains the 2 lines:

|[19:38:15,776] ||1
|[19:38:38,361] |x|||2

Is there a command to look for the last '|' and then move the data that
appears afterwards to the start of the line.

i.e would produce

1|[19:38:15,776] ||
2|[19:38:38,361] |x|||

Thanks

Steffen Schuler

2005-10-24, 3:45 pm

stephenfu1@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> If i have a file that contains the 2 lines:
>
> |[19:38:15,776] ||1
> |[19:38:38,361] |x|||2
>
> Is there a command to look for the last '|' and then move the data that
> appears afterwards to the start of the line.
>
> i.e would produce
>
> 1|[19:38:15,776] ||
> 2|[19:38:38,361] |x|||
>
> Thanks
>


awk 'BEGIN {FS="\\|";OFS="|"}
{$1=$NF; $NF=""; print}' file
Michael Tosch

2005-10-24, 3:45 pm

Steffen Schuler wrote:
> stephenfu1@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
> awk 'BEGIN {FS="\\|";OFS="|"}
> {$1=$NF; $NF=""; print}' file


shouldnt this be

awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS="|"}
{$1=$NF; $NF=""; print}' file

Or

sed 's/\(.*|\)\(.*\)/\2\1/' file


--
Michael Tosch @ hp : com
James

2005-10-24, 3:45 pm

sed 's:\(.*\)|\(.*\):\2\1|:' file

James

Enrique Perez-Terron

2005-10-24, 3:45 pm

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:03:09 +0200, <stephenfu1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> If i have a file that contains the 2 lines:
>
> |[19:38:15,776] ||1
> |[19:38:38,361] |x|||2
>
> Is there a command to look for the last '|' and then move the data that
> appears afterwards to the start of the line.
>
> i.e would produce
>
> 1|[19:38:15,776] ||
> 2|[19:38:38,361] |x|||


sed 's/\(.*\)|\(.*\)/\2\1|/' infile > outfile

-Enrique
stephenfu1@gmail.com

2005-10-24, 3:45 pm

Thanks very much everyone, very much appreciated.

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