On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:20:52PM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > I think awk is easier: > > awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $1}' original | tr -s > target Sorry, that must read: awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $1}' original | tr -s ' ' > target