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Old 12-29-2015
awk search and replace nth column by using a variable.

I am passing a variable and replace nth value with the variable.
I tried using many options in awk command but unable to ignore the special characters in the output and also unable to pass the actual value.

Input : "1","2","3"
Output : "1","1000","3"

Code:
TempVal=`echo 1000`
Cat file_name.txt | awk -F, -v OFS=, '{$2="\"$TempVal\""; print }

'

After running the above command - Output :

Code:
"1","$TempVal","3"

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