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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Serach pattern in one field and replace in another Post 302677399 by newboy on Thursday 26th of July 2012 04:31:43 AM
Old 07-26-2012
Serach pattern in one field and replace in another

Hi all,

I have a TAB separated file like this:

sample.rpt:

54 67 common/bin/my/home {{bla bla bla}} {bla bla} Replace Me
89 75 bad/rainy/day/out {{ some bla} } {some bla} Dontreplace Me

......
......

I wish to do a regexp match on the 3rd item, say "common/bin/my/home" and if there is a match i want to replace the 6th item "Replace Me" by my own text like "happy Home"

Additionally my regexp will be a shell variable, so I need a command which accepts regexp as variable

The items may have spaces or backslashes and the file is Tab separated.

Is there a simple one liner using sed or awk which can perform this over entire file in one command ?


Thanks in advance Smilie
 

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