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Old 03-31-2010
Find and change flag "Yes to No" or "No to Yes"
name:age:girlfriend
aa:11:yes
bb:22:yes
cc:33:no
dd:44:no
ee:55:yes

I want to change the cc, the status of girlfriend to yes.

Find cc, and then change! how can i do this?
# 2  
Old 03-31-2010
Code:
awk -F ':' { if($1=="cc" && $3=="no") { $3="yes"}; print $0}' inputfile > outputfile

# 3  
Old 03-31-2010
Try this : I hope below is your expectation:

awk -F ':' '{if ($1 == "cc") {print $1":"$2":yes"} else {print $1":"$2":no"}}' inputfile
# 4  
Old 03-31-2010
Code:
awk -F: '$1=="cc" {$3=($3=="yes")?"no":"yes"}1' OFS=: myFile

# 5  
Old 03-31-2010
It dont work. I want to find the key, change the key in the file. The awk finds the key but dont change
# 6  
Old 03-31-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by rafazz
It dont work. I want to find the key, change the key in the file. The awk finds the key but dont change
Code:
(rm myFile; awk -F: '$1=="cc" {$3=($3=="yes")?"no":"yes"}1' OFS=: > myFile;) < myFile

# 7  
Old 03-31-2010
$c is the file
$SEP is the separator - :

I have the function exists to find the key.

exists() {
grep -i -q "^$1$SEP" "$c"
}

So the prog will be

if exists "$name"; then
<CODE HERE>
echo
echo "Status changed"
else
echo "Error: status not found"
fi

The tr works but it change all the fields with the Yes to No, or No to Yes. but i only want that $name.
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