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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers How to find that has a string and pull the record out of that file Post 302469103 by OMLEELA on Thursday 4th of November 2010 06:20:56 PM
Old 11-04-2010
Scottn,

I was thinking this has to do with awk & there you were !!! Im so glad you helped me.

Just want to tag another request to this one...if I want to replace that 234 with MCCDK in the sixth column inside that file, how do I do this ?

Thanks,
Lee.
 

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