#! /bin/bash # show each field with index in csv echo -------------- > /dev/tty head -1 < $1 | sed 's/,/ /g' | awk '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) printf $i "_" i " "; print ""}' > /dev/tty echo -------------- > /dev/tty echo > /dev/tty # get index of lon/lat column read -p "Move which column? " origin_col read -p "To which index? " new_col cat $1 | # move lon and lat to the first and second column awk -F',' -v OFS="," -v origin_th=$origin_col -v new_th=$new_col '\ {for (i=1; i<= NF; i++) if (i == new_th) printf $origin_th OFS $i OFS; else if (i == origin_th); else printf $i OFS; print ""}\ ' |\ sed 's/,$//g'