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# 1  
Old 03-29-2007
Question Help needed in character replacement in Korn Shell

How do I replace a space " " character at a particular position in a line?

e.g. I have a file below

Code:
$ cat i2
111 002 A a
33 0011 B c
2222 003 C a


I want all the 1st spaces to be replaced with forward slash "/" and the 3rd spaces to have 5 spaces to get the output below:


Code:
111/002 AAA     a
33/0011 BBB     c
2222/003 CCC     b

I created a shell which would achieve this but I'm looking for a easier way.

Code:
$ cat test.ksh
#!/bin/ksh

cut -d' ' -f1 < $1 > 1st_word
cut -d' ' -f3 < $1 > 3rd_word

while read line
do

sed -e "s/$line /$line\//g" $1 | grep $line

done < 1st_word > tmp_ouput


while read line
do

sed -e "s/$line /$line     /g" tmp_ouput1 | grep $line

done < 3rd_word


Any help will be appreciated

Steve
# 2  
Old 03-29-2007
Code:
$ cat file
111 002 A a
33 0011 B c
2222 003 C a
$ sed -e "s; ;/;1" -e "s/ /     /2" file
111/002 A     a
33/0011 B     c
2222/003 C     a

# 3  
Old 03-29-2007
Try this..

Code:
sed -e 's/ /\//' -e 's/\(.* .*\)\( .*\)/\1    \2/' filename

Output:


Code:
cat temp
111 002 A a
33 0011 B c
2222 003 C a
sed -e 's/ /\//' -e 's/\(.* .*\)\( .*\)/\1    \2/' temp
111/002 A     a
33/0011 B     c
2222/003 C     a

# 4  
Old 03-29-2007
Depending on your version of sed something like this may work for you:
Code:
$ sed -e 's! !/!1' -e 's/ /     /2' infile > outfile

If that doesn't work, the "longhand" version will....
Code:
$ sed -e 's/^\([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\) \(.*\)$/\1\/\2 \3     \4/' infile > outfile

Cheers
ZB
# 5  
Old 03-29-2007
Code:
sed 's/ /\//;s/ \(.\)$/    \1/' file

# 6  
Old 03-29-2007
Bug

That's exactly what I wanted!

Thank you all for your quick response!!!

Cheers
Steve
# 7  
Old 03-29-2007
Code:
sed 's/ /\//;s/ \(.\)$/    \1/' file

Hi matrixmadhan, can you explain what mean your code?

Thank you


regards,

heru
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