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Interleave lines sorted by a column

(Similar to How to interleave lines from two text files but for a single input. Also similar to Sort lines by group and column but interleaving or randomizing versus sorting.) I have a set of systems and tasks in two columns, SYSTEM,TASK: I want to distribute the tasks to each system in a balanced way. The id…

changing two lines of a text file

I have a bash script which gets a text file as input and takes two parameters (Line N° one and line N° two), then changes both lines with each other in the text. Here is the code: It works fine for every two lines which are not consecutive. but for lines which follows after each other (for ex line 5