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Old 08-18-2010
Find and Replace random numeric value with non-numeric value

Can someone tell me how to change the first column in a very large 17k line file from a random 10 digit numeric value to a non numeric value. The format of lines in the file is:
1702938475,SNU022,201004

the first 10 numbers always begin with 170
# 2  
Old 08-18-2010
Code:
echo "1702938475,SNU022,201004" |awk  'BEGIN{FS=OFS=","} /^170/ {$1="ABCDEFG"}1'

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Old 08-19-2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rdcwayx
Code:
echo "1702938475,SNU022,201004" |awk  'BEGIN{FS=OFS=","} /^170/ {$1="ABCDEFG"}1'

The file has 17,000+ records(rows) of data with the following format,

1702938475,SNU022,201004

but the first column number above in red, is different for every row, the 7 numbers that follow 170 are random numbers for each row. So do i still echo that string?
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Old 08-19-2010
sed -i s/^170[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/<PATTERN>/g file.txt
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Old 08-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bahf1s
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but the first column number above in red, is different for every row, the 7 numbers that follow 170 are random numbers for each row. So do i still echo that string?
No, I think that rdcwayx was giving an example of how you might go about it using the echo as a sample for testing.

I think this is the most straight forward way:

Code:
sed 's/^[^,]*/aaaaaaaaaa/' input-file-name >output-file

This will match everything from the beginning of the line to the first comma (the 10 digit number) and replace it with 'aaaaaaaaaa' You can replace the string of a's with what ever you need.
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Old 08-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bahf1s
---------- Post updated at 11:23 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:00 PM ----------



The file has 17,000+ records(rows) of data with the following format,

1702938475,SNU022,201004

but the first column number above in red, is different for every row, the 7 numbers that follow 170 are random numbers for each row. So do i still echo that string?
Code:
awk  'BEGIN{FS=OFS=","} /^170/ {$1="ABCDEFG"}1' urfile

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# 7  
Old 08-19-2010
Thank you very much Agama, this worked perfectly!!

---------- Post updated at 10:51 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:47 AM ----------

Thank you very much Agama, this worked perfectly!!!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by agama
No, I think that rdcwayx was giving an example of how you might go about it using the echo as a sample for testing.

I think this is the most straight forward way:

Code:
sed 's/^[^,]*/aaaaaaaaaa/' input-file-name >output-file

This will match everything from the beginning of the line to the first comma (the 10 digit number) and replace it with 'aaaaaaaaaa' You can replace the string of a's with what ever you need.


---------- Post updated at 10:53 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:51 AM ----------

Thanks to everyone who provided input and new knowledge.
 
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