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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to change a number on a specific lines in a file with shell? Post 302606019 by Corona688 on Friday 9th of March 2012 10:52:12 AM
Old 03-09-2012
I've tried preserving the formatting, but you are trying to put a 3-long string (8.3) in a column that only has room for two characters:

Code:
 2009 10 3 2349 21.3 L  40.719  27.388 10.8  FRO  7 0.8 1.1LFRO 2.6CFRO 1.1LMAM1
 2009 10 3 2349 21.3 L  40.719  27.388 10.8  FRO 8.3 0.8 1.1LFRO 2.6CFRO 1.1LMAM1

What you want isn't possible unless you want to enlarge that column.
 

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