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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace 2nd column for each line in a csv file with fixed string+random number Post 302568400 by tententen on Thursday 27th of October 2011 10:47:37 AM
Old 10-27-2011
Thank you everyone!. it worked nicely! Smilie

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Dear all,

Let say I just want to alter the first row for the second column to a value called, 'type' instead of cf+random numbers.

so basically does the same thing, except, only for the first row, and change the value to 'type', instead of cf10923 for example. How do I this?
 

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