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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search and replace with awk Post 302904644 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 5th of June 2014 10:16:10 AM
Old 06-05-2014
Try:
Code:
awk -F= -v a="MonsterHouse.Scully" -v b="Mickey/Minie" '{if ($1 ~ "ORACLE_HOME" ) printf "ORACLE_HOME=%s\n",a;
  else if ( $2 ~ /perm_loc/ ) {gsub("perm_loc",b); print} else print}' file

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