Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

Can anyone tell me how can rewrite a line in a file by using line number? I tried to use sed by failed to do so.
For example

HELLO
179.390 111.560
HOW TO DO
WHAT TO DO

to become

HELLO
200 3000
HOW TO DO
WHAT TO DO

To replace line 2 :

Code:

sed '2c\
200 3000' infile > outfile

With awk:

Code:

awk 'NR==2 {print "200 3000"; next} 1' infile > outfile

Jean-Pierre.

Here is another way of doing it:
To change line 2:

Code:

sed '2s/.*/200 3000/' infile

Thanks everyone for valuable suggestions.

I tried both commands suggested by aigles but it doesnt work. I got errors which indicating syntax error if I am not mistaken.
However, Shell Life commands work well.

I wish to extend my questions base on the question I posted the other day.
How about only change the 2nd word on the second line of the file? For example
HELLO
179.390 111.560
HOW TO DO
WHAT TO DO

to become

HELLO
179.390 50000
HOW TO DO
WHAT TO DO

The two commands work fine on my AIX box.
What errors you got ?

To change word 2 on line 2, you can do :

Code:

awk 'NR==2 {$2=50000; print ;next} 1' infile > outfile

Jean-Pierre.

Code:

awk 'NR==1 {$2=50000;print;next}{print}' file

The error that I got when run awk "NR==3 {print "200 3000"; next} 1" unit.dat
is as below.

Syntax Error The source line is 1.
The error context is
NR==3 {print >>> 200 <<<
awk: 0602-502 The statement cannot be correctly parsed. The source line is 1.

is that indicating syntax error?