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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Replace the value of a column using awk command? Post 302752433 by saj on Monday 7th of January 2013 03:09:38 AM
Old 01-07-2013
How to Replace the value of a column using awk command?

Hi
cat test.txt

Code:
H|123|341|567|asfg
D|dfg|trtyy|errt
D|ert|frty|wer

Here I need to replace the third column value with 100 of the first record only and while printing I need to print the full file content also..I am expecting a result like this

Code:
H|123|100|567|asfg
D|dfg|trtyy|errt
D|ert|frty|wer

Can some one please help on this

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-07-2013 at 04:34 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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