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12-10-2012
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Quick sed/awk question
Hi fellow linux-ers, I have a quick question for you. I have the following text, which I would like to modify: Code:
10 121E(121) 16 Jan 34S 132E 24 Feb 42 176E(176) 18 Sep 21S 164E 25 May 15 171W(-171) 09 Jul How can I do the following 2 modifications using sed and/or awk? 1. in 1st column, if a field has an "S", delete the "S" and add a "-" in front of number 2. in the 2nd column, delete the parenthesis and the number that exists within it Thanks!!!
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12-10-2012
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try: Code:
awk '$1 ~ /S/ {gsub("S","",$1);$1="-"$1} {sub("[(].*[)]","",$2)} 1' infile |
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