Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:45:28 -0800 From: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Subject: Re: Regular Expression Help Message-ID: <20081130094528.3bdf8782@gom.home> In-Reply-To: <4932CA0D.8080109@mykitchentable.net> References: <4932CA0D.8080109@mykitchentable.net>
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:14:53 -0800
Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote:
> I'm attempting to take an ldiff file and flip first/last name order.
>
you can try using sh (i'm using zsh)
file data.txt has the following:
joe brown
joe brown-smith
file t.sh is coded as:
#!/usr/local/bin/zsh
#
while read var; do
f=${var% *}
l=${var#* }
echo $l, $f
done < $1
then you just run it as
t.sh data.txt
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