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Can anyone suggest the best way to swap 2 lines in a file? I want to swap line 14 with line 26.

I assume there must be a quick way of doing this with awk or perl or maybe something else but if so ... I don't know it.

Thanks in advance
 
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Agreed - the vi solution's great. Thanks very much.
 
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