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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting search and replace in a file Post 302184217 by satyam_sat on Friday 11th of April 2008 01:28:55 AM
Old 04-11-2008
Because i am having 10,000 rows and 50 columns .....not only mensioned column so many columns have to converted ....

I have to pass column no and conversion value and converted value ...as parameters to the code ........kindly help ........it is little urgent ....


earlier iam are using below it is not working ...can u help me please ..because on column may have different conversion values ....

awk 'BEGIN { FS=OFS=","}$5=="E001"{ $5="sath"}$6=="E000"{ $6="SSAA"}1' mass > mass1
Last edited by satyam_sat; 04-11-2008 at 02:48 AM..
 

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transmission-edit

TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				      TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)

NAME

     transmission-edit -- command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs

SYNOPSIS

     transmission-edit [-h] [-a url] [-d url] [-r search replace] torrentfile(s)

DESCRIPTION

     transmission-edit command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs

OPTIONS

     -h --help
	     Show a short help page and exit.

     -a --add URL
	     Add an announce URL to the torrent's announce-list if it's not already in the list

     -d --delete URL
	     Remove an announce URL from the torrent's announce-list

     -r --replace search replace
	     Substring search-and-replace inside a torrent's announce URLs. This can be used to change an announce URL when the tracker moves or
	     your passcode changes.

EXAMPLES

     Update a tracker passcode in all your torrents:

	   $ transmission-edit -r old-passcode new-passcode ~/.config/transmission/torrents/*.torrent

AUTHORS

     Jordan Lee

SEE ALSO

     transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1),
     transmission-show(1)

     http://www.transmissionbt.com/

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