with the below i seem to get getting better results since the orig post
my output is
but i cant seem to get the x var to print its value.... BTW i just couldnt follow your suggestion its been way too long since i did any of this and i wasnt event that good when i was doing it more often.
any thoughts on how to get the value of the var to print to the end of the line?
Hi,
I have a huge file & I want to add a specific text in column. But I want to add this text from a specific line number to a specific line number & another text in to another range of line numbers.
To be more specific: lets say my file has 1000 lines & 4 Columns. I want to add text "Hello"... (2 Replies)
I am trying to use sed to replace specific characters at a specific position in the file with a different value... can this be done?
Example:
File:
A0199999123
A0199999124
A0199999125
Need to replace 99999 in positions 3-7 with 88888.
Any help is appreciated. (5 Replies)
Hi,
i'm trying to find a way to replace some numbers in a file, but with no luck sofar.
Let's say i have file with three columns,
i would like to find specific line, and replace third column with different number.
search_string="oa11 /home/testfile1.log"
new_number=600
test file... (4 Replies)
I asked this before, but my problem got more complicated. Heres what I am trying to do:
I'm trying to replace a string at a certain location with another string.
Heres the file I'm trying to change:
\E
I want to replace the escape code at the 3rd line, 2nd column with this escape code... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have gone through may posts and dint find exact solution for my requirement.
I have file which consists below data and same file have lot of other data.
<MAPPING DESCRIPTION ='' ISVALID ='YES' NAME='m_TASK_UPDATE' OBJECTVERSION ='1'>
<MAPPING DESCRIPTION ='' ISVALID ='NO'... (11 Replies)
I'm trying to update a text file via sed/awk, after a lot of searching I still can't find a code snippet that I can get to work.
Brief overview:
I have user input a line to a variable, I then find a specific value in this line 10th field in this case. After asking for new input and doing some... (14 Replies)
Hi, I am trying to use an awk command to replace specific character positions on a line beginning with 80 with contents of another file.
The line beginning with 80 in file1 is as follows:
I want to replace the 000000000178800 (positions 34 - 49) on this file with the contents of... (2 Replies)
my requirement is,
consider a file output
cat output
blah sdjfhjkd jsdfhjksdh
sdfs 23423 sdfsdf sdf"sdfsdf"sdfsdf"""""dsf
hellow there
this doesnt look good
et cetc etc
etcetera
i want to replace a line of line number 4 ("this doesnt look good") with some other line
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to replace a string with sed, in a text file containing this pattern:
location alpha
value x
location beta
value y
location gamma
value y
location delta
value y
location theta
value z
...
What I want to achieve is:
Find location beta into text file... (1 Reply)