Good morning,

Any idea how to repalce this sed or awk?

file:10:no:1011
file:10:file:1011
data:10:say:1011
data:10:data:1011


output:
file:10:yes:1011
file:10:yes:1011
data:10:yes:1011
data:10:yes:1011

Good evening!

One way...

thanks sir Perderabo, it works in aix, but not in solaris . actually it was intended for solaris, but thanks a lot.

Invinzin, on Solaris you may have gawk available.

$ gawk -F: -v OFS=: '{$3="yes";print}' data

thanks i use nawk

hi sir's,
here's the problem i encountered regarding w/ awk. Hope someone could help. below works for me.

$cat passwdlist
root:6GNlhvGxH3jOk:6445::::::
daemon:asasda:6445::::::
bin:NP:6445::::::
sys:NP:6445::::::

nawk -F: -v OFS=: '{
if($1 ~ "root" || $1 ~ "daemon" ){print $1,"yes:" $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8}
else { print $0 }
}' passwdlist > new2

output :

root:yes:6GNlhvGxH3jOk:6445:::::
daemon:yes:asasda:6445:::::bin:NP:6445::::::
sys:NP:6445::::::

But when i try to embed it in my script it doesnt work,

$ cat test1
rm file1
rm new2
for x in `cat userlist`
do

for i in `cat passwdlist | grep -w $x | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
do
a=NP
if [ $a != $i ]
then
echo " $x are not equal to NP" >> file1
fi

for n in `cat file1|awk '{print $1}'`
do
awk -F: -v OFS=: '{
if($1 ~ "$n" ){print $1,"yes:" $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8}
else { print $0 }
}' passwdlist > new2

done
done
done
clear
cat new2

of course i changed root, daemon to $n, i dont want to declare those vaules, what if i have plenty of accoutns that i want to disabled. Hope someone could get it

Your script shows 'awk' & not 'nawk' ?!