REORDER-COLUMNS(1)

💖 REORDER-COLUMNS(1) 💖

okay bestie so this one lives in the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual and it is genuinely one of the most useful little gremlins in the whole toolbox, no cap ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

reorder-columns — reorder columns of a tab-delimited file 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

reorder-columns N ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so reorder-columns is a Unix-style filter, right? it reads tab-delimited data on standard input and prints to standard output a modified version of it 💅

and the way it works is: all the rows stay in their original order (periodt, we do not shuffle), but the columns get reordered — and honestly it can also remove columns or repeat them, which is highkey iconic of it 🌈

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• N — use input column N next on each line 🍓

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• between-two-genes(1)
• filter-columns(1)
• just-top-hits(1)
• print-columns(1)
• sort-table(1)
• uniq-table(1)
• xtract(1)

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this page is brought to you by NCBI 💖, dated 2025-05-26 — yeah that's the source and the date bestie, mwah, go reorder some columns 🫶✨