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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Alter Fixed Width File Post 302914585 by Corona688 on Tuesday 26th of August 2014 06:38:51 PM
Old 08-26-2014
You are one infraction away from being set read-only. Please start using code tags.

awk doesn't work like that, it's for delimited files, not fixed-width ones. You can assign text to column numbers, but you can't assign it to the return of a function.

If you have GNU awk, you could do awk -v FIELDWIDTHS="width1 width2 width3 ..." '$5 ~ /-/ { $5="000000" } 1' inputfile outputfile, with 'width1' etc replaced by the widths of your columns, and 5 replaced by your column number... FIELDWIDTHS is a special variable GNU awk uses to deal with fixed width files.
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