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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing character "|" in given character range Post 302903326 by SriniShoo on Tuesday 27th of May 2014 03:48:16 AM
Old 05-27-2014
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS = OFS = "|"}
NF > 3 {for(i = 4; i <= NF; i++)
  {$3 = $3 "_" $i};
  NF = 3}1' file

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perl solution
Code:
perl -lne '@A = split(/\|/, $_, 3);
  $A[2] =~ s/\|/_/g;
  print join("|", @A)' file

---------- Post updated at 03:48 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:48 AM ----------

sed
Code:
sed 's/|/_/3g' file

 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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