I need to extract and reorder some columns from some very large files. GNU cut will extract the columns nicely and quickly, but won't reorder them. I can do the reordering easily by piping the output of cut through a perl one-liner, but I'm looking for something faster. Is there a GNU utility that will do this? TIA! Kynn -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.
- How to extract *and reorder* columns? kj
