[buug] Sorting columns?

Aaron T Porter atporter at primate.net
Sun Aug 3 13:12:37 PDT 2003


On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:33:38PM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> I need to rejigger the actual columns (not sort by a particular column).
> So, if my columns are currently:
> 
> foo bar baz
> 0   1   2
> 
> after sorting (alphabetically) they should be:
> 
> bar baz foo
> 1   2   0

	So you want to scarf the first row, alphebetize the elements, and
then jigger the rest of the file to fit?

pear	fig	apple
bosch	mission	galla
asian	beall	fuji

becomes:

apple	fig	pear
galla	mission	bosch
asian	beall	fuji



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