cut or awk - am I missing something ?

[Sangal-Arun]

Hi All,

Pls help...as it looks like I'm missing something.

[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$ head -1 arne_1_6_terry_trask_elems-final
/mnt/cvs/soa-cvsroot/stp_products/GPDSProducts/ARNE/webapp/xml/DP01_01.xml 1.2
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$ head -1 arne_1_6_terry_trask_elems-final | cut -d' ' -f1
/mnt/cvs/soa-cvsroot/stp_products/GPDSProducts/ARNE/webapp/xml/DP01_01.xml
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$ head -1 arne_1_6_terry_trask_elems-final | cut -d' ' -f2
1.2
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$ head -1 arne_1_6_terry_trask_elems-final | cut -d' ' -f1,2
/mnt/cvs/soa-cvsroot/stp_products/GPDSProducts/ARNE/webapp/xml/DP01_01.xml 1.2
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$ head -1 arne_1_6_terry_trask_elems-final | cut -d' ' -f2,1
/mnt/cvs/soa-cvsroot/stp_products/GPDSProducts/ARNE/webapp/xml/DP01_01.xml 1.2
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$ head -1 arne_1_6_terry_trask_elems-final | awk -F' ' '{ print $1 $2}'
/mnt/cvs/soa-cvsroot/stp_products/GPDSProducts/ARNE/webapp/xml/DP01_01.xml1.2
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$ head -1 arne_1_6_terry_trask_elems-final | awk -F' ' '{ print $1 " " $2}'
/mnt/cvs/soa-cvsroot/stp_products/GPDSProducts/ARNE/webapp/xml/DP01_01.xml 1.2
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$
[e027020@scrollkeeper ~]$ head -1 arne_1_6_terry_trask_elems-final | awk -F' ' '{ print $2 " " $1}'
1.2 /mnt/cvs/soa-cvsroot/stp_products/GPDSProducts/ARNE/webapp/xml/DP01_01.xml


Arun Sangal

[Cabhan]

What exactly are you missing? Using cut to display them in the opposite order? According to the cut man page:

Selected input is written in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once.