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Old 04-02-2009
Usha Shastri Usha Shastri is offline
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Replacing a character in a line

Hi All

I want to replace a character in a line, but position will be different form one iteration to another.
So i m keeping the position i a variable.
I am trying with following code

Code:
pos=3
echo "Hello World, Good Morning" | sed 's/\(.\{$pos\}\)./\1Y/'
But its not working, Can you please help.

Thanks

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-02-2009 at 02:41 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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