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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find and Replace random numeric value with non-numeric value Post 302446695 by Bahf1s on Thursday 19th of August 2010 10:53:28 AM
Old 08-19-2010
Thank you very much Agama, this worked perfectly!!

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Thank you very much Agama, this worked perfectly!!!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by agama
No, I think that rdcwayx was giving an example of how you might go about it using the echo as a sample for testing.

I think this is the most straight forward way:

Code:
sed 's/^[^,]*/aaaaaaaaaa/' input-file-name >output-file

This will match everything from the beginning of the line to the first comma (the 10 digit number) and replace it with 'aaaaaaaaaa' You can replace the string of a's with what ever you need.


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Thanks to everyone who provided input and new knowledge.
 

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