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Old 02-21-2008
Jolly Jolly is offline
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Unhappy Hurry !!! Its very urgent for me...
Hi All,

Need a quick help on the similar issue...I am trying to replace the 87th column ina file with some other value but this command doesn't work for me.

awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS=";"}$87==10000019{$9=123456700}{print}' ab

Can someone help please...