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Old 01-29-2007
Edit txt file using vi editor
Dear All

I have a file called sample.txt which contains as follows

HR Files records Loaded RecordDate Unloaded
-- ---- -------- --------- ------------ ------
00 567 77777 67896 0 0
01 345 345567 45678 0 0

I want to update the file using VI Editor , that is i want to insert or update values for RecordDate and Unloaded column with out touching other fields.Only update RecordDate and Unloaded fields , other data will remain same. I tried with ed command but i am not able to do it.How to do this...;
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Old 01-29-2007
Code:
s/\([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\)/\1 \2 \3 \4 2323 4545/

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