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From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
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Subject: Re: help me with this sed expression
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:20:52PM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> I think awk is easier:
> 
> awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $1}' original | tr -s > target

Sorry, that must read:
  awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $1}' original | tr -s ' ' > target