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And that's the piece I've been missing, sorry for being such a pain :D

It displays correctly but does not update the file

Still no luck.

ex record in file:
2005:Suzuki:GS500f:Blue:6500:4000:6500:6500:6500:6500

commands runs but does not update

I tried using the exact code above and got an error could not find file OFS etc before attempting to modify it to work for my particular case.
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal cannot open file `OFS`: for...

awk -F: '{if($0~bike&&new_mileage-$10>=4000){$10=new_mileage}}1' bike=Suzuki new_mileage=12000 OFS=":" input_file

I could change this to awk -F: 'if{(FNR==linenum){$10=new_mileage}}1'...

I have a large number of these not specific to values, so I was hoping to replace $# rather than specific values.

Also wouldn't the sed replace all the values? Thanks for the -i that might be what...

Update the mileage on a bike
assume line 4 is:
2005:Suzuki:GS500f:Blue:6500:6000:6500:6500:6500:7000

I've extracted the 10th field of the 4th line i.e. 7000.
User enters 12000 (new odometer...

I'm trying to update a text file via sed/awk, after a lot of searching I still can't find a code snippet that I can get to work.

Brief overview:
I have user input a line to a variable, I then...

Hrrm pretty sure that's what I was typing I finally used find for the directory and -exec'd it to another find for the group. Ill have to check when I get home. Thanks for all your help!

and if I wanted to exceed 100 i'd just have to add another [0-9]?

---------- Post updated at 03:16 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:07 PM ----------

For data[1-9][0-9] I get no so file...

why wouldn't they? they were all created at the same time by the same user

I created dir www/data1-99 and thru in a bunch of empty files, the results of that only shows files in the /www/data1/ and ignores the other directories.

Working with examples from a text I found online not quite getting the results I want. Hoping I could have someone look at them and give me some feedback.

Find is set to display contents of...