How to switch columns 5 and 6 in a file in Linux?

Question

I data samples as follows:

R950E03 111006 930226 910008 Resistant 1

R950E06 110917 950085 910043 Resistant 2

R950C09 110892 950085 910125 Resistant 2

R949B05 111101 870141 840409 Resistant 2

Possible duplicate of [Swap two columns - awk, sed, python, perl](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11967776/swap-two-columns-awk-sed-python-perl) — Ruslan Osmanov, Dec 10 '16 at 03:31
Columns can be irregular After moving the columns. R950E03 111006 930226 910008 1 Resistant R950E06 110917 950085 910043 2 Resistant — user628767, Dec 10 '16 at 07:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 09 '16 at 22:03

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You can use awk.

awk '{print $1, $2, $3, $4, $6, $5}' yourfile > tmp
mv tmp yourfile

answered Dec 09 '16 at 22:03

liboyue

Columns can be irregular After moving the columns. R950C09 110892 950085 910125 2^M Resistant – user628767 Dec 10 '16 at 07:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '18 at 09:57

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Use cut instead of awk if you want

Refer to

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11967934/7188414

Regards

answered Oct 26 '18 at 09:57

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