Howto Swap the Order of Columns in a CSV in bash

[nkululeko]

Hi all

I need help to reorder my csv columns .
eg name uid surname to uid name surname .

[mikewillis]

Like this?

me@mine:/tmp> cat blah name,uid,surname me@mine:/tmp> IFS=,; while read -r f1 f2 f3 ;do echo "${f2},${f1},${f3}" ;done <blah uid,name,surname