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Replace certain character at specific place with related character

hello i have file with 100k records and each one has certain value that starts at 28th column and certain value that starts at 88th column e.g. 1st file <25>1234567 ..... <88> 8573785485 i have aditional file with values which are related to value that starts at 88th column of the...

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find character and Replace character for given position

Hi, i want find the character '-' in a file from position 284-298, if it occurs i need to replace it with 'O ' for the position in the file. How to do that using SED command. thanks in advance, Sara

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Replace a character with other

Hi All, I am having the below sample lin in the file. '''||V_D_BOOKING_TYPE||''' || ''�'' || '''||V_D_SHARE_DELIV_FL||''' || ''�'' || '''|| SUBSTR(V_D_FINANCIALDATATYPE,1,1) ||''' || ''�'' || I need to replace ''�'' with char(172). how do i do it. PLease help. sed 's/\''�\''/chr(172)/g'...

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Replace multiple occurances of same character with a single character.

Hi all, Greetings, I have the following scenario, The contents of main file are like : Unix|||||forum|||||||||||||||is||||||the||best so||||||be|||||on||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||it And i need the output in the following form: Unix=forum=is=the=best so=be=on=it ...

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replace character with '

ive tried doing sed -i 's/h/\'/g' file.txt to replace h with ' but it doesnt work:confused:. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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In Sed how can I replace starting from the 7th character to the 15th character.

Hi All, Was wondering how I can do the following.... I have a String as follows "ACCTRL000005022RRWDKKEEDKDD...." This string can be in a file called tail.out or in a Variable called $VAR2 Now I have another variable called $VAR1="000004785" (9 bytes long), I need the content of...

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replace a character with another character

hi i have a string var=abc.ghi.jkl.mno.pqr now i need to replace .(dot) with _(underscore) the result should be like "arresult=abc_def_ghi_jkl_mno_pqr" Please help

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read in a file character by character - replace any unknown ASCII characters with spa

Can someone help me to write a script / command to read in a file, character by character, replace any unknown ASCII characters with space. then write out the file to a new filename/ Thanks!

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

character replace

Hi, I have rows in a file, in each row string starts with "A200819097564". I want to replace the first character A with space.So the string looks like " 200819097564" I tried "tr -s "A2008" " 2008"" But did not get the required outpit. Thanks.

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

replace character with tr

Hi, i would like substitute the words containing the character "-" by any other. i've already tried the tr command: tr '\-' 'X', for example. But, this command doesn't work. It gave this: Original text: -i abcd-fe Result text: Xi abcdXfe Result desired: -i abcdXfe Thanks! ;)

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