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Hi, I am doing a online linux course. I need to answer some question in this course. Currently having problem with the following question: Q: In a text file how do you move 3 lines down by 2 lines? Can anyone help me to answer this question? (answer should be some sorts of command)

I'm assuming you'd want to move the first three lines in a text file below the 4th and 5th so essentially this 1 2 3 4 5 becomes like: 4 5 1 2 3 In vi you can press the following keys (while standing on the first one): Vjjxjp awk: awk 'NR<4{l[NR]=$0};NR>3{print};NR==5{print l[1]"\n"l[2]"\n"l[3]}' example: $ echo -e '1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8' | awk 'NR<4{l[NR]=$0};NR>3{print};NR==5{print l[1]"\n"l[2]"\n"l[3]}' 4 5 1 2 3 6 7 8 I'm sure there is a way to do this in sed, too :)