Originally Posted by juggernautjoee

Thanks for the replies guys!

Don, I'll try a few of those and get back to you. The end goal is a cron job that runs daily that will edit this file to replace that 2nd row 6th field with 2400 no matter what the number was before.

EDIT:
I had to compile a newer version of awk to get the inplace command to work, but I think I've got it.

Code:

/usr/local/bin/awk -i inplace -F, '/^02,193631306,000300032,1,/{$6 = 2400}1' OFS=, /testdir/BALTRN3.*

This will edit that line on all files in the directory. So I can run this every day to update any new files that get dumped in here by my lftp process.

I also needed to edit that 3rd line, 2nd field to something else, so I just tweaked the above command to fit my liking:

Code:

/usr/local/bin/awk -i inplace -F, '/^03,08082000001018001/{$2 = 1018001}1' OFS=, /testdir/BALTRN3.*

Guys, I can't thank you enough for pointing me in the right direction!

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