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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting On shell scripting Post 302234820 by vidyadhar85 on Wednesday 10th of September 2008 11:50:07 AM
Old 09-10-2008
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Originally Posted by dreamer_2580
can somebody help me...

i wanted to change a certain OLD WORD with a NEW WORD in just a SPECIFIC LINE..

example..

Line No. Name Age ID Number
1 Joan 14 2008-1521
2 Mike 14 2008-1623
3 Kyle 16 2007-1562

how will i PROMPT the user for the LINE NUMBER 1 and CHANGE the AGE??

please help me,,,SmilieSmilie

thank you very much
seems like homework for me..
i can give you an idea..
first ask user for line no store it in variable
then use sed or awk to get that line e.g sed -n '/$lineno/p'
then ask user the age change store it in a variable then use awk to replace it with old one
 

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GJITEN(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GJITEN(1)

NAME
gjiten - Japanese dictionary for Gnome SYNOPSIS
gjiten [ option ] DESCRIPTION
gjiten is a Japanese dictionary for the Gnome Desktop. It also has a kanji dictionary; any combination of stroke number, radicals and search key can be used for kanji lookups. Requires dictionary files in edict format and a working X Input Method (e.g. kinput2) for Japa- nese input. This manpage only explains the command line options. You should be able to access the complete documentation from the Help menu. OPTIONS
-c and -v are convenient for fast lookups via keyboard shortcuts. -k Same as --kanjidic --kanjidic Only show the KanjiDic window on startup. -w WORD Same as --word-lookup=WORD --word-lookup=WORD Look up WORD on startup. -l KANJI Same as --kanji-lookup=KANJI --kanji-lookup=KANJI Look up Kanji on startup in KanjiDic. -c Same as --clip-kanji --clip-kanji Look up kanji from the clipboard. -v Same as --clip-word --clip-word Look up word from the clipboard. --version Prints the version of gjiten BUGS
See the BUGS file for a list of bugs. The TODO file is more likely to contain these. Please contact me if you encounter any bugs. SEE ALSO
xjdic(1) AUTHORS
Botond Botyanszki (boti@rocketmail.com) 20 Jun 2002 GJITEN(1)
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