Shell Programming and Scripting

Yes I am on solaris.
I tried your command,it does not give error but the o/p is different than what
i am expecting.It is removing all the occurances of "@".Seems it is not able to interpret "4" alongwith "g".

Code:

$/usr/xpg4/bin/sed 's/@/ /4g' test.dat
fdgfgddfg sfsdfdsf dfdfd  vfdfsdfd
sfsdfs sdfd gfhfgh  ddffg sdf
srfgtfsdfs sdfertrd eergfhfgh  ddffg sdf
wttrtrt sdfd sdfdf  sdfdfds

---------- Post updated at 02:29 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:25 PM ----------

Yes I am on solaris.
I tried your command,it does not give error but the o/p is different than what
i am expecting.It is removing all the occurances of "@".Seems it is not able to interpret "4" alongwith "g".

Code:

$/usr/xpg4/bin/sed 's/@/ /4g' test.dat
fdgfgddfg sfsdfdsf dfdfd  vfdfsdfd
sfsdfs sdfd gfhfgh  ddffg sdf
srfgtfsdfs sdfertrd eergfhfgh  ddffg sdf
wttrtrt sdfd sdfdf  sdfdfds

---------- Post updated at 04:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:29 PM ----------

The perl command works fine but when i try to create a perl file with contents

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
perl \-pe "$c=0; s/(\t)/ ++$c<=23 ? $1 : ""/eg" "src.dat" > "dest.dat"

it gives me an error.

Do i need to change anything in the perl file