reordering and reformatting tab separated output:

    [pdurbin@beamish ~]$ echo -e "foo\tbar\tbaz" | awk -F'\t' '{printf("%s %s (%s)\n",$2, $3, $1)}'
    bar baz (foo)

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html

http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt