04-05-2011
this worked...
Franklin52, your reply helped, thank you... not sure why but the commad:
awk '{$3="01"}1' file
did not work
however, it got me thinking of what would work and I came up with this:
awk '{$3="01"; print $0}' file
this seemed to work. Does this make sense?
Thank you so much!
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