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THANK YOU VERY MUCH ZB -- now I know how to write a script....

Im not familiar with script writing - but I tried to create a file with the following code you had then ran

sed -f script

and nothing happen.

how would I execute those script?

THANKS --...

I have awhole bunch of files and I want to edit stringA with stringB without changing the filename.

I have tried the following sed commands:

sed "s/stringA/stringB/g" *

This will print the...

Ygor

the OR character only works on 2 item when using OR

I need to be able to select more than 2 item so I dont have to do it line by line or in this case state by state
....CA..
....WA.....

Ygor -

this is what i came up with so far...

awk '/****CA**/ {print $1,"PST",$2,$3,$4}' co | wc

I need the 5th and 6th character to define as either CA or AZ only.
I tried this:
awk...

How can I grep for a certain letter that only shows on the 3rd letter or character.

ex:
ASGHDY
SHTYRD
SDTYRD
IGIKGD

I only want the TY part of the 3rd character
so output would only be...

THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY THAT HELPED -- LEARNED A LOT!!!

YGOR your close to the result that i wanted

this is the output of your awk
YRLNCA11-SL1 DMT8a4 13

it should have been
YRLNCA11-SL1 DMT8a4 5 2
YRLNCA11-SL1 DMT8a4 6 11

the first 2 fields...

Here is an example of my input file:
===============
PLALCA12-SL2 2 1
PLALCA12-SL2 2 2
PLALCA12-SL2 2 3
PLALCA12-SL2 2 4
PLALCA12-SL2 2 5
PLALCA12-SL2 2 6
PLALCA12-SL2 2 7...

I think i have to rephrase my question:

Input File
Field1 - Field2 - Field3 - Field4
A - B - C - 1
A - B - C - 2
A - B - C - 3
A - B - C - 4
A - B - C - 5
A - B - D - 1
A - B - D - 2
A -...

First time poster -

I have a huge file and i want to sort and compress it to something more readable

Ex:
FUTNCA01-SL1 DMT8a4 5 3
FUTNCA01-SL1 DMT8a4 5 9
FUTNCA01-SL1 DMT8a4 5 21...