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Move columns before or after other columns.

Signature

> move {flags} ...rest

Flags

• --after {string}: the column that will precede the columns moved
• --before {string}: the column that will be the next after the columns moved

Parameters

• ...rest: The columns to move.

Input/output types:

input	output
record	record
table	table

Examples

Move a column before the first column

> [[name value index]; [foo a 1] [bar b 2] [baz c 3]] | move index --before name
╭───┬──────┬───────╮
│ # │ name │ value │
├───┼──────┼───────┤
│ 1 │ foo  │ a     │
│ 2 │ bar  │ b     │
│ 3 │ baz  │ c     │
╰───┴──────┴───────╯

Move multiple columns after the last column and reorder them

> [[name value index]; [foo a 1] [bar b 2] [baz c 3]] | move value name --after index
╭───┬───────┬──────╮
│ # │ value │ name │
├───┼───────┼──────┤
│ 1 │ a     │ foo  │
│ 2 │ b     │ bar  │
│ 3 │ c     │ baz  │
╰───┴───────┴──────╯

Move columns of a record

> { name: foo, value: a, index: 1 } | move name --before index
╭───────┬─────╮
│ value │ a   │
│ name  │ foo │
│ index │ 1   │
╰───────┴─────╯