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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to put a word starting at particular position in a file using shell scripting Post 302375147 by radoulov on Thursday 26th of November 2009 03:50:06 PM
Old 11-26-2009
Code:
awk > main.txt 'NR == FNR { 
  n = split($0, t, "\047")
  fmt[NR] = t[4]; next 
  }
{ 
  for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) 
    printf "%-*s", fmt[i], $i
  print ""    
  }' config.txt temp.txt

 

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