note spacebar You can't reorder the output fields with 'cut', but if you have 'sed' you can do this: <code>$ cat t FIRST MIDDLE LAST STRNO STRNAME CITY STATE ZIP $ sed -n 's/\(.*\t\).*\t\(.*\t\).*\t.*\t\(.*\t\).*\t.*/\2\1\3/p' t LAST FIRST CITY</code> 1014517 1014530