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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read a number from file and place it back Post 302323791 by Franklin52 on Tuesday 9th of June 2009 02:45:27 AM
Old 06-09-2009
Something like this?

Code:
awk '$0++' file > newfile && mv newfile file

Regards
 

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