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Old 03-24-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline Forum Staff  
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If you want fix columns you can use awk:

Code:
awk -v var=$1 '
BEGIN{FS=OFS=":"}
/DNGGF10/{$2=sprintf("%-8s", var)}1
' test > test.chk
Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

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