02-20-2012
Replace line and field using SED and/or AWK or some other suggestion
QUESTION 1:
How do you replace a specific line (i.e. line 4) with a new user defined line (i.e. the contents of SAMS’s name, history, math and English grades have been set already). I have been attempting to use SED (FYI: I don’t have GNU SED) or AWK, but haven’t had any luck. FYI: I am using SOLARIS 10 as an OS. See example below. FYI: KEEP IN MIND FOR ALL EXAMPLES I WAS UNABLE TO PROPERLY ALIGN NAME, HISTORY, MATH AND ENGLISH WITH THERE CORRESPONDING VALUES USING THIS THREAD WORD PROCESSOR .
Below is the starting file.
NAME: HISTORY: MATH: ENGLISH:
ROB A B A
DAN A C B
JOHN C B A
For example if John has left the class and SAM has joined and his grades are all A's.
Resulting file (BOLD TEXT IS WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE):
NAME: HISTORY: MATH: ENGLISH:
ROB A B A
DAN A C B
SAM A A A
Question 2:
Does anyone know how to replace a specific field (i.e. line 2, field 2)? I would like to do the replacement this generically (line 2, field 2). So, for example I don’t want to use grep on ROB. Again, I do not have GNU SED. See example below.
Below is the starting file.
NAME: HISTORY: MATH: ENGLISH:
ROB A A A
DAN A A A
JOHN A A A
Resulting file (BOLD TEXT IS WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE):
NAME: HISTORY: MATH: ENGLISH:
ROB A B A
DAN A A A
JOHN A A A
Last edited by methyl; 02-20-2012 at 11:49 PM..
Reason: Clearly homework and should have been posted in the homework forum
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For instance, this FONT-SPEC:
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REPERTORY is a symbol representing a charset or 'nil'. Omitting it is the same as specifying ENCODING as REPERTORY. If it is not 'nil', the
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font or not is asked to each font driver.
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