yes, 4th 12 is fifth, but can you explain this code? I can't really understand it.
I understand the part sed '/^Chocolate/s
It means Start With Chocolate, and then substitute right?
What I don't understand is the [^:]*/5
The last part /5 means replace with 5 right?
As for $ awk -F: '/^Chocolate/ {$4=5}1' OFS=: file1
What does the "{$4=5}1" , the 1 means?
I'll give both codes a try later just to learn more.
Thanks!
It means on the line starting with Chocolate replace the first occurrence of the pattern with 5. The pattern is [^:]*, which means 0 or more occurrences (*) of any character that isn't ":"
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@michael, that is equivalent to:
But then you would really use the content as the fields instead of just the position. That would really change the 4th occurrence of 12 irrespective of what column it is in, or what string it is part of.
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