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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Replace yesterday date with today's date except from the first line Post 302738271 by balajesuri on Friday 30th of November 2012 04:46:26 PM
Old 11-30-2012
Code:
#! /bin/bash
while read line
do
    if [[ $line =~ "AB" ]]
    then
        line=${line/$(date -d "-1 day" +%Y%m%d)/$(date +%Y%m%d)}
        echo $line
    else
        echo $line
    fi
done < file

OR
Code:
sed "/AB/ s/$(date -d "-1 day" +%Y%m%d)/$(date +%Y%m%d)/" file

Last edited by balajesuri; 11-30-2012 at 05:51 PM..
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