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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change the text in 2nd column in file Post 302738893 by sdosanjh on Monday 3rd of December 2012 05:13:28 AM
Old 12-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by pamu
Try this...

only problem is with OFS..

Code:
$ cat file
abc.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write
def.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write
ghi.xxx.out.remoteOn           FALSE                               write
jkl.xxx.out.remoteOn           TRUE                               write

$ awk '{if($0 ~ /FALSE/){$2="TRUE"}else if($0 ~ /TRUE/){$2="FALSE"}}1' OFS="\t" file
abc.xxx.out.remoteOn    FALSE   write
def.xxx.out.remoteOn    FALSE   write
ghi.xxx.out.remoteOn    TRUE    write
jkl.xxx.out.remoteOn    FALSE   write


Thanks Pamu, but it has changed the file format. after change, now only one tab space. while there are around 3 tab spaces before 3rd col and 2 tabs before 2nd col.
 

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