sed/awk help on text

mad_penguin · 09-20-2011, 07:12 PM

Hi gents,

I have this text file with exactly 3 columns like this:

sometext sometextsometext sometext
sometext sometext sometext
sometext sometextsometextsometext sometext

The request will be to 'fix' the third column. I mean how can I bring the last column to the second one?
In fact better will be to know how could I format this text doc so that last column will be vertically alligned (notice that on the second column the rows are not equal )

Awaiting your suggestions.

Cheers.

crulat · 09-20-2011, 09:01 PM

awk '{print $1,$3,$2}'

mad_penguin · 09-20-2011, 09:38 PM

Thank you Crulat!

Kenhelm · 09-21-2011, 07:53 AM

'column -t' formats text into columns
http://linux.die.net/man/1/column

Code:

echo '
sometext sometextsometext sometext
sometext sometext sometext
sometext sometextsometextsometext sometext' | column -t

sometext  sometextsometext          sometext
sometext  sometext                  sometext
sometext  sometextsometextsometext  sometext

grail · 09-21-2011, 08:57 AM

OT: @crulat - I keep meaning to mention that the indirect in your Fibonacci is an added extra that is not required:

Code:

Fibonacci(){ local m=$1;(( m == 1 || m == 2 )) && echo $((m-1)) || echo $(($(Fibonacci $((m-1)))+$(Fibonacci $((m-2)))));};Fibonacci $1