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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Storing a variable using sed Post 302897061 by vgersh99 on Thursday 10th of April 2014 05:25:07 PM
Old 04-10-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by disedorgue
Hi,
Why use sed ?
Code:
$ echo $HEADERREC
0012PVGRSCDVSDV 005 00000000000000000000 2014 0.00
$ CUTVAR=${HEADERREC/SDV/STR}
$ echo $CUTVAR
0012PVGRSCDVSTR 005 00000000000000000000 2014 0.00

Regards.
only if you have bash or maybe ksh93 (not sure about the latter)...
 

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