On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:50:22AM +0200, Steffen Schuler wrote:
| The following command
| 
|   $ echo a,b | cut -d , -f 2,1
| prints
| 
|   a,b
| 
| instead of
| 
|   b,a

cut(1) doesn't reorder fields.  Use awk(1) instead:

$ echo a,b | awk -F, '{print $2 "," $1}'

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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