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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sed/awk to find negative numbers and replace with 1? Post 302897052 by alister on Thursday 10th of April 2014 03:47:18 PM
Old 04-10-2014
Variations of vgersh99's solution which don't rebuild $0 when $2 is non-negative:
Code:
awk '$2>=0 || ($2=1)' OFS='\t' myFile

or
Code:
awk '$2<0 {$2=1} 1' OFS='\t' myFile

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 04-10-2014 at 04:52 PM..
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