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My actual data is record based, not text based.
I used text based as an example only. Sorry If i confused.

Imagine a record start at 8 th position and last till 15th postion.
Next record starts...

a 4 letter word can be replaced bya 7 leter word. But problem is when doing the reverse.

When a 7 leter word in a record is replaced by a 4 letter word , the word is getting replaced .
But the...

Hi

b/w is short form of 'between'......

Starting position of the String is where the words like Orange/Mango/cricket etc.. (starting position is 8 I guess...and from there next 7 characters...

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

Still Getting an error at the string display part!!

I will summarise what I am trying to do. Sorry if I had confused anyone.
I am pasting the in_file &...

Guys, Really appreciate your quick response.!!

I am a beginer in the Unix area, thats may b reason i still could nt get solve the problem :confused:

This is the sample of the code I have...

Thank You Malcom. This looks good.

But One quick question what is the command to display characters b/w 5 to 10 for all the records in a file.

Thank You Malcome. I will try and get back .

Hi Guys,

While I was writing one shell script , I just got struck at this point.

I need to extract words from a file at some specified position and do some comparison operation and need to...