On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:14:53 -0800
Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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