reversing site coordinates

[Cosyn Bart]

On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Christine Weiss wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have an awk program to reverse the coordinates of a site file:
> 
> y|x|attribute   to   x|y|attribute
> 
This should work

 awk -F'|' '{print $2"|"$1"|"$3}' test

where test is your input file
after checking if it works redirect it to a file
by adding > outputfile

 awk -F'|' '{print $2"|"$1"|"$3}' test > outputfile

                Bart


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