HI Eevryone, I have a tab delimited table. Something like this 
a    23    11
b    24    15
c    16    19
d    8    2
e    40    41

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What i want to do is first arrange column 2 in the descending order of values acoording to column 1 so the result would be 
e    40
b    24
a    23
c    16
d    8

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Similarly for third and first column it will be 
e    41
c    19
b    15
a    11
d    2

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The output should be like this 
a    3    4
b    2    3
c    4    2
d    5    5
e    1    1

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Now in the output the values are basically the line numbers. So for column 2 in the input file a was on 3rd line when we sorted it according to the values. Similarly for b,c,d,e. How can i do this. THanks V15

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