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Old 11-19-2008
Christoph Spohr Christoph Spohr is offline
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Hi,

i don't know exactly what you are trying to do, but if you only want to change line 2 of you file, this should be enough:


Code:
sed "/^99/s/,,,/,0,0,/g" file

Which means: go to the line starting with 99 and on this line substitute three kommas in row by ,0,0,

HTH Chris