[SOLVED] How to swap configuration entities within config files?

How to swap configuration entities within config files?

Apologies if the question has been asked before, really stuck on this issue for few hours which seems relatively easy. I got two patterns identified through awk in the single file.

awk '/\[code\.change\..*\]/ {found=1; print; next} found && NF {print} found && !NF {exit}' filename
awk '/\[code\.test\..*\]/ {found=1; print; next} found && NF {print} found && !NF {exit}' filename

Is there a possibility I can combine these two awks in one to swap the blocks?

an example of the config file is below file.cfg

[code.change.1]
file.path=filename
file.contact=manager
file.active=TRUE

[code.test.1]
ls -la filepath
pwd
find . -name filename

Just needs to swap the order of the configuration. Thanks

Solution

With the provided example, would you please try:

awk -v RS= '                                                            # records are reparated by blank lines
    /^\[code\.change/ {pos1 = NR}                                       # position of the 1st block
    /^\[code\.test/ {pos2 = NR}                                         # position of the 2nd block
    {
        ary[NR] = $0                                                    # store the record in an array
    }
    END {
        tmp = ary[pos1]; ary[pos1] = ary[pos2]; ary[pos2] = tmp         # swap the two records
        for (i = 1; i <= NR; i++) print(ary[i], i<NR ? ORS : "")        # print the array
    }
' file.cfg