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This will also do the magic,
cat $FILE | sed -e "s/B.[0-9]*[\-][0-9]*$/O00000000000000/g" > Temp_File

This one worked fine for my problem.
cat tempFile | sed -e "s/\-..............$/O00000000000000/g" > filea
cat filea | sed -e "s/.\-.............$/O00000000000000/g" > fileb
cat fileb | sed -e...

Hi ,

To RudiC- My apologize, sample file i provided have spaces between them, that was eliminated by browser. I cannot able to understand your solution c'oz am new to SED.

To bipinajith - i...

Hi,

I want to replace the whole position 284-298 to character 'O' if this '-' character occurs in that position. Above mentioned thread will replace only 289 position.

This is how my file...

Hi,
i want find the character '-' in a file from position 284-298, if it occurs i need to replace it with 'O ' for the position in the file. How to do that using SED command.
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I got it Thanks!.:D

It worked fine .
Great! Thanks alot.:D

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Is there way to write that into new file?

I tried with ...

Is there any alternative for this issue?

Hi,
Am trying to replace a character '-' with 'O' in position 289 in my file but am not success with below command.
sed 's/^\(.\{289\}\)-/\1O/' filename

sed: 0602-404 Function...