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08-07-2007

akdwivedi

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Quote:

Originally Posted by lorcan

Code:

awk -F'~' 'BEGIN{OFS="~";}{ if ($4 != 4){$4=4;} print }' your_file

Thanks a lot this works.

Abhi.