awk, swap elements A and B, pipe a command in place of an element

[Karl Young]

Anton Yuzhaninov(citrin+bsd at citrin.ru)@2017.04.11 17:18:47 -0400:
> On 04/11/17 16:19, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > However if we have 3 elements, namely a
> > 
> > TimeStamp  Home Away
> > 1                  2       3
> > 
> > We can swap 2 and 3 with above code.  However I want to format $1 with
> > date -r "$i" "+%a %b %d %Y %I:%M %p" and then swap $2 and $3.  With
> > regular BSD awk strftime command is not available.  We can use for
> > command to format the timestamp
> 
> echo "1491945088 x y" | awk '{ system("date -r "$1" \"+%a %b %d %Y %I:%M
> %p\" | tr -d \"\n\""); print " "$3" "$2}'
> Tue Apr 11 2017 05:11 PM y x
> 

Heh heh.  Perl has no lock on TMTOWTDI


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