#! perl -sw use strict; our $B //= 64; $B *= 1024; my $obuf; while( <> ) { my @f = split chr(9); $obuf .= join( chr(9), @f[2,0,5] ) . "\n"; if( length( $obuf ) > $B ) { print $obuf; $obuf = ''; } } print $obuf; ## Corrected C&P error. See [lotus1]'s post below.