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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Help with awk or sed Command to Replace Text in Files Post 303043434 by D3U5X on Tuesday 28th of January 2020 05:08:04 PM
Old 01-28-2020
Thank you, Yoda! I will give this a try and update this thread as solved if I can get it working. Smilie

--- Post updated at 11:08 PM ---

In my initial tests the solution is almost perfect but I am getting an extra line in my files:
Code:
sdf,asdf,XXX,asdf,asdf
sdf,asdf,XXX,asdf,asdf
sdf,asdf,XXX,asdf,asdf
sdf,asdf,XXX,asdf,asdf
,,XXX

I am working out why this is and I will update.
 

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