Cool! Much better. that uses the line number notation to insert before. good shortcut!!<br><br>so how about dropping all regex and working the file in line order?<br><br>file=$1<br>last=$(tail -n 1 $file)<br>sed -i -e "1 i\\<br>
$last<br>" -e "$ /d" $file<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ooooo! I like this, Jim. But, there is no need for regexing every line<br>
of the doc twice.<br>
file=$1<br>
last=$(tail -n 1 $file)<br>
# if you do this in a chmoded file you have to double the backslash as<br>
I have in the next line<br>
sed -e '$d' -e "1 i\\<br>
$last<br>
" $file<br>
<br>
Here it is in downloadable form: <a href="https://gist.github.com/2228256" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/2228256</a><br>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> last=$(tail -n 1 file)<br>
> first=$(head -n 1 file)<br>
> sed -i -e "/$last/d" -e "/$first/ i\<br>
> $last<br>
> " file<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:27 AM, <a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a> <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On 03/28/2012 11:10 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
>> > What is the best way to move that last line of a text file to be the<br>
>> > first line?<br>
>><br>
>> "Best" is subjective...<br>
>><br>
>> > Please answer the question as asked and don’t suggest making the file be<br>
>> > in the correct order when we receive it or changing the automated<br>
>> > processing to read the last line first. Assume those aren’t options.<br>
>><br>
>> k...<br>
>><br>
>> > What I came up with was to do tail -1 >newfile and head -<number of<br>
>> > lines – 1> but was thinking there ought to be a better way.<br>
>><br>
>> I would do something similar:<br>
>><br>
>> #!/bin/bash<br>
>> # Put the last line of the file specified into the<br>
>> # first line of the file specified.<br>
>><br>
>> TMP_FILE="$1".$$<br>
>> tac "$1"|head -n 1 > "${TMP_FILE}"<br>
>> tac "$1"|tail -n +2|tac >> "${TMP_FILE}"<br>
>> mv "${TMP_FILE}" "$1"<br>
>><br>
>> --- Mike<br>
>><br>
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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
outcome.<br>- <i><i><i><i>2011 Noam Chomsky<br><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i><br>