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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Replace characters after match Post 303036766 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 10th of July 2019 05:27:20 PM
Old 07-10-2019
$NF is the last column in any record read from a file. It is an awk built-in variable. There are several of them. Since you want the last column changed you need to replace the / character with the - character. gsub, an awk builtin function, means substitute a pattern (1 or more characters). Use characters a new set of character(s) the replacement.


So using gsub on $NF does what you asked for.

See: AWK Built-in Variables
 

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