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07-04-2009

panyam

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I want to replace KG with K in field 11th in all the rows.

None of the solutions from jayan_jay or lathavim are checking for the 11th filed.

Bit change to lathamvim's solution :

Code:

awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS=","} $11 ~/KG/ { $11 = "K" ; print }'  File_name.txt

Last edited by panyam; 07-04-2009 at 09:13 AM..