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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace & sign to &amp word Post 302474134 by naveed on Tuesday 23rd of November 2010 10:56:58 AM
Old 11-23-2010
Replace & sign to &amp word

Hi, I have text file abc.txt. In this file, I have the following data.

Input:
Code:
Mr Smith &amp Mrs Smith
Mr Smith &apos Mrs Smith
Mr Smith & Mrs Smith
Mr Smith& Mrs Smith
Mr Smith &Mrs Smith

Output:
Code:
Mr Smith &amp Mrs Smith
Mr Smith &apos Mrs Smith
Mr Smith &amp Mrs Smith
Mr Smith&amp Mrs Smith
Mr Smith &ampMrs Smith

In line 3, 4, and 5. I want to change & sign to &amp word but do not want to change anything in line 1, and line 2. If I use

Code:
sed 's/&/&amp/g' abc.txt

command, it changes to &amp everywhere.

Thanks for your help

Naveed

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NAME
gmtpath - Get full pathname for gmt files SYNOPSIS
gmtpath leg-ids DESCRIPTION
gmtpath returns the full pathname to one or more gmt-files. The pathname returned for a given cruise may change with time due to reshuf- fling of disks/subdirectories. leg-ids Can be one or more gmtleg-names, like c2610. Use `cat list_of_legs` to pass all the legnames in the file list_of_legs. EXAMPLES
To obtain pathnames for cruises c2603 and v2819, run gmtpath c2603 v2819 SEE ALSO
GMT(1) REFERENCES
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