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Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:26:00 +0200
From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Rotate words in string
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# sgniazdowski@gmail.com / 2016-05-10 07:39:22 +0200:
> having space separated string of words, how to nicely rotate the words
> in it? So:
> word1 word2 word3
> 
> becomes:
> word3 word1 word2
> 
> and so on?

turn it into an array, then:

words=($words[-1] $words[1,-2])

-- 
roman