Changing part of column value with AWK


 
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# 8  
Old 09-28-2010
Hi Kurumi ,

Thanks again but unfortunately I dont have ruby installed .

Is it possible to replace one column of a file with the first column from a different file.
Kindly let me know.Smilie
# 9  
Old 09-28-2010
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=""}{$19=$20=$21=$22="9"}1' infile

sed 's/.\{4\}\(.\{6\}$\)/9999\1/' infile

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