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Old 10-23-2012
Question To change the delimiter for first two columns
Dear Friends,

I have file as below

Code:
 
1|sdf|rere|sert|trt|rtr

i want to change the delimeter first three columns two fields

expected output

Code:
 
1~sdf~rere|sert|trt|rtr

Plz help
# 2  
Old 10-23-2012
For example:
Code:
$ sed 's/|/~/;s/|/~/' inputfile
1~sdf~rere|sert|trt|rtr

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Old 10-23-2012
@hergp : Thanks for the reply. It works as expected Smilie Smilie
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