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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace comma and blank with comma and number Post 302887974 by jaituteja on Wednesday 12th of February 2014 04:47:21 AM
Old 02-12-2014
Replace comma and blank with comma and number

I,

I have a file and i need to replace comma and blank space with comma and 0.

cat file.txt

Code:
a,5
b,1
c,
d,
e,4

I need the output as

cat file.txt

Code:
a,5
b,1
c,0
d,0
e,4

Please help guys.. a simple and short way.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-12-2014 at 05:52 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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  .ix n   Same as .in but continue filling output on current line.
  .li n   Literal text on next n lines.  Copy to output unmodified.
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  .m3 n   Insert n (1) blank lines between end of text and footer.
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  .pl +n  Paper length is n (66) lines.
  .po +n  Page offset.	Each line is started with n (0) spaces.
  .ro	  Page numbers are printed in Roman numerals.
  .sk n   Skip n pages (i.e., make them blank), starting with next one.
  .sp n   Insert n blank lines, except at top of page.
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