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Operating Systems Linux Replace field in csv Post 302159964 by frank_rizzo on Saturday 19th of January 2008 05:02:43 PM
Old 01-19-2008
you don't want to redirect to the same file that your reading! as you found out this will truncate the data file. Redirect to a new filename.


ie:

Code:
awk -F, 'BEGIN{OFS=","}{if($2 == 232){$5="PASSED";print}}' alumni*.csv > newfile.csv

 

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REC2CSV(1)							   User Commands							REC2CSV(1)

NAME

       rec2csv - rec to csv converter

SYNOPSIS

       rec2csv [OPTIONS]... [REC_FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       Convert rec data into csv data.

       -t, --type=TYPE
	      record set to convert to csv; if this parameter is omitted then the default record set is used

       -S, --sort=FIELD
	      sort the output by the specified field.

       --help print a help message and exit.

       --version
	      show version and exit.

AUTHOR

       Written by Jose E. Marchesi.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to: bug-recutils@gnu.org
       GNU recutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

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       Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012 Jose E. Marchesi.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for  rec2csv  is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and rec2csv programs are properly installed at your
       site, the command

	      info rec2csv

       should give you access to the complete manual.

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