Command to reverse heading order

[evepy88]

Hi everyone,

I am a very beginner for linux command and I need help in the command needed to perform this action for the heading of my contig.
Example:
I have a sentence which is in this way
> contig85 |[average coverage: 76][Limit0.01]

How am I going to rearrange it into:
> [average coverage:76][Limit 0.01] contig85

Thank you very much
XY

[hanshart]

Hi evepy88,
In Linux you can use awk to rearrange your fields
The following code will do the job:

awk 'BEGIN{FS="[|>]"}{print "> "$3$2}'

FS="[|>]" determines the field seperators to be "|" or ">"
$3 and $2 refer to the third and second field then.

awk can be used for every line of a file:

awk 'BEGIN{FS="[|>]"}{print "> "$3$2}' FILENAME

or with the pipe:

echo "> contig85 |[average coverage: 76][Limit0.01]" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="[|>]"}{print "> "$3$2}'
> [average coverage: 76][Limit0.01] contig85

[evepy88]

Thanks

Thanks hanshart