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From: Arvind <lists@duh-uh.com>
Subject: Re: Challenging Shell Script
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:38:17 +0530
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Hi,

> This list is in a text file items.txt as follow:
>=20
> 500   screw driver philips
> 501   camera digital canon
> 502   laser printer samsung
> etc...

sed 's/\([0-9]*\) *\(.\)[^ ]* *\(.\)[^ ]* *\(.\).*/\2\3\4\1/' items.txt

I'll let you do the rest.

Arvind
--=20
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
        -- Rudyard Kipling

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