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Old 06-15-2014
Change numbers

Hallo
This is the content of the file
Code:
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

And I want the following output
Code:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

I make this script
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Code:
num=3
number=1
until [ "$num" == "12" ]
do
sed 's/^'$num'$/'$number'/'
#num=$(( num + 1 ));    # this work also
#nummer=$(( nummer + 1 ));  # this work also
num=$( expr $num + 1 )
number=$( expr $number + 1 )
done < file.txt > file2.txt
echo "$num"
echo "$number"
exit 0

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The output of echo is only for checking and num=12 and number=10 so this is correct
The output of the file is the following
Code:
1
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

So, the script change only the first one and not the rest.
Thanks anyway

Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-15-2014 at 02:42 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
# 2  
Old 06-15-2014
If i understand the requirement correctly, perhaps this awk ?

Code:
awk '$1 <= 12 { $1=$1-2 }1' inputfile > outputfile

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# 3  
Old 06-15-2014
So, You want to print series of numbers starting from one until the number of lines of the files? or want to subtract 2 from each number in the file?
# 4  
Old 06-15-2014
sed reads an entire file!
This is 1. not efficient if you want to only change one line,
and 2. it reads the entire file.txt at the first cycle, so the file is ended at the next cycles.
# 5  
Old 06-16-2014
hallo
The awk solution works for me.
So thanks to Peasant
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