I have a file like this:
Dog Cat One ABCDEFGHIJ house
Dog Cat Two ABCDEFGHIJ house
Cat Cat One ABCDEFGHIJ house
Cat Cat Two ABCDEFGHIJ house
I want to look at $3 and if it says "Two" print out the line except reverse $4.
Dog Cat One ABCDEFGHIJ house
Dog Cat Two JIHGFEDCBA house
Cat Cat One ABCDEFGHIJ house
Cat Cat Two JIHGFEDCBA house
I was trying to just use a substring 'for loop'
awk '{
if ($3 == "One") print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5;
else if ($3 == "Two") print $1, $2, $3, for(i=length($4);i>=1;i--)
print substr($4,i,1), $5
}' infile > outfile &
This isn't working and obviously I'm lost.
Any help would be fantastic.
