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swapping two columns with awk keeping tabulation

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Thomas Cokelaer

Assuming you have a data file with N columns and you want to swap the first and second one, just type: awk -F $’\t’ ‘ { t = $1; $1 = $2; $2 = t; print; } ‘ OFS=$’\t’ input_fileawk … Continue reading →

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