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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 302606133 by miriammiriam on Friday 9th of March 2012 03:39:20 PM
Old 03-09-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
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.
It is possible to eliminate the spaces after FBO so that the column number does not change.

I will try to handle this problem with that awk statement.

Thank you for your kindly anwers...

Last edited by miriammiriam; 03-09-2012 at 05:50 PM..
 

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int ncurses_color_content (int $color, int &$r, int &$g, int &$b) DESCRIPTION
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