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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get nth occurence of string from a file Post 302940898 by r@v!7*7@ on Friday 10th of April 2015 05:34:11 PM
Old 04-10-2015
Thanks a lot for the command and a beautiful explanation.

---------- Post updated 04-10-15 at 02:34 PM ---------- Previous update was 04-09-15 at 02:53 PM ----------

I have an additional requirement for this,

I need to replace this value with some other value.
Is there a way I can do this by using a command in conjunction with this awk command.

Code:
$ awk -F"," -v X="03" -v N=2 '($1 == X) && ((++L)>=(N+0)) { print $2 ; exit }' inputfile

In this test2 should be replaced with replace2.

Please help.
 

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