AWK to print field 2 first then field 1

Question

Here is the input sample    name1 gmail com com emailclient account name2 msn com com socialsite auth account   I m trying to achieve this   Emailclient name1 gmail com Socialsite name2 msn com   If I use AWK like this   cat foo   awk  BEGIN FS       print  2      1     it messes up the output by overlaying field 1 on the top of field 2   Any tips suggestions  Thank you

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A couple of general tips  besides the DOS line ending issue    cat is for concatenating files  it s not the only tool that can read files  If a command doesn t read files then use redirection like command  lt  file    You can set the field separator with the -F option so instead of    cat foo   awk  BEGIN FS       print  2      1      Try   awk -F      print  2    1   foo    This will output   com emailclient account name1 gmail com com socialsite auth accoun name2 msn com   To get the desired output you could do a variety of things  I d probably split   the second field   awk -F      split  2 a      print a 2     1   file emailclient name1 gmail com socialsite name2 msn com   Finally to get the first character converted to uppercase is a bit of a pain in awk as you don t have a nice built in ucfirst   function   awk -F      split  2 a      print toupper substr a 2  1 1   substr a 2  2   1   file Emailclient name1 gmail com Socialsite name2 msn com   If you want something more concise  although you give up a sub-process  you could do   awk -F      split  2 a      print a 2     1   file   sed  s     U amp    Emailclient name1 gmail com Socialsite name2 msn com

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Maybe your file contains CRLF terminator  Every lines followed by  r n   awk recognizes the  2 actually  2 r  The  r means goto the start of the line    print  2 r 1  will print  2 first  then return to the head  then print  1  So the field 2 is overlaid by the field 1

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The awk is ok   I m guessing the file is from a windows system and has a CR   m ascii 0x0d  on the end of the line   This will cause the cursor to go to the start of the line after  2   Use dos2unix or vi with  se ff unix to get rid of the CRs

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Use a dot or a pipe as the field separator   awk -v FS               printf   s s  s  s n   toupper substr  4 1 1    substr  4 2    1   2     lt  lt  END name1 gmail com com emailclient account name2 msn com com socialsite auth account END   gives   Emailclient name1 gmail com Socialsite name2 msn com

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