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Is there anybody who knows the commands to use to keep the original file format after running the script? It changes the position of the blank spaces... I made a research but didn't find anything...

thanks! the only problem now is keeping the original format of the file, 'cos it seems all messed up!
cheers

L.

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I tried with this

if [ $string != $newstring ]; then
((i=i+1))
echo "$i $newstring" >> $BPATH
awk -F : '($10 == 1)' $BPATH
fi
done < $DPATH


but it doesn't work at all..:(

@sk1418
Actually my idea was to read a bidimensional array from the file and then assign the values 0 or 1 according the criterion I wrote before. I'm stuck on the way to 2D arrays in bash scripting...

Thank you both so much.
The loop was useless indeed.
You used some commands I didn't know yet, such as "while read". I just learnt it.
Now I have to implement this :
beside the column with the...

hello everybody there, I'm a new bash shell programmer and I'm dealing with a problem.
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