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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed problem - replacement string should be same length as matching string. Post 95368 by zazzybob on Tuesday 10th of January 2006 06:38:23 PM
Old 01-10-2006
How about just using bash builtins?

Code:
# ./amangeles.sh
78 ANGELO xxxxxxx
79 ANGELO2 xxxxxxxxx
# cat ./amangeles.sh
#! /bin/bash

while read line; do
   set -- ${line}
   echo "${1} ${2} ${3//?/x}"
done < amangeles.txt

exit 0

Cheers
ZB
 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
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       /bin/tcsh,  /bin/zsh,  /sbin/jsh,  /sbin/sh,  /usr/bin/bash,  /usr/bin/csh,  /usr/bin/jsh,  /usr/bin/ksh,  /usr/bin/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
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