04-23-2008
editing a character in a file
hello, nice forum you have here, glad i joined
i have a problem with inline editing via scripts and i was hoping one of you smarter gents could help me out. i'm just doing my baby steps so bare with me if you can.
so i have an input file which goes something like this:
6
5
6
3
i'd like to be able to change a number, like say the first 6 to 2. i played around with sed lie so
sed '1!d' file | sed "s/.*/2/"
but how can i put this to the same line i want to edit?
also i searched the forum for solutions, and saw things in perl, i don't want to go that far just for a solution (since i don't know the first thing about perl). basic bash or awk would be the best.
thanks
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