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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to change file contents line by line Post 302283260 by angheloko on Tuesday 3rd of February 2009 01:29:16 AM
Old 02-03-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vini99
Hi Angheloko,

Thanks a lot for the response.
After digging through the net and "sed" man pages came up with the following,
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sed -e "1n; s/./1/2" -e "s/./4/8" file1.sh > file2.sh
mv file2.sh file1.sh
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This is giving me the required output & I'm doing some testing on the same.

Thanks Again
Regards
Vini

Smilie Genius man! Good to know you got it. It ended up me leaning something new. I should thank you! Smilie
 

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wcwidth(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 					       wcwidth(3C)

NAME
wcwidth - number of column positions of a wide-character code SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h> int wcwidth(wchar_t wc); DESCRIPTION
The wcwidth() function determines the number of column positions required for the wide character wc. The value of wc must be a character representable as a wchar_t, and must be a wide-character code corresponding to a valid character in the current locale. RETURN VALUES
The wcwidth() function either returns 0 (if wc is a null wide-character code), or returns the number of column positions to be occupied by the wide-character code wc, or returns -1 (if wc does not correspond to a printing wide-character code). ERRORS
No errors are defined. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe with exceptions | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
setlocale(3C), wcswidth(3C), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 14 Aug 2002 wcwidth(3C)
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