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    Or, allowing for leading trailing whitespace: perl -pe 's/^(\s*)(\S+)(.+?)(\S+)(\s*)$/$1$4$3$2$5/' -- note the middle bit has at least 1 char to account for separate first/last words. Commented Nov 28, 2018 at 22:24