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Old 11-06-2008
Sed command to find, manipulate and replace a number
Hi, Im very new to the world of sed so I'm really not even sure if this is possible. What i need to do is read from a flat file and every time i see this line:

VAL=123,456

I need to change 456 to 457 for every occurence of this line in the file. The numbers 123 and 456 are different for every instance of VAL. So basically i need to get VAL= skip the next value and grab the value after the "," and then add one to and subsitiute it back in.

Is it possible?
Last edited by LT_2008; 11-06-2008 at 10:53 AM..
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Old 11-06-2008
Try awk
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=","}/^VAL/{$NF=$NF+1}1' file

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Old 11-07-2008
HI,
Check out this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sed 's/VAL=123,456/VAL=123,457/g' fielname


Cheers
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Old 11-07-2008
@aajan please read the OP request carefully.
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Old 11-13-2008
Thanks Danmero - I tried the awk command but it gave me a syntax error.. not much other info on the error
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Old 11-13-2008
for that syntax - use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk
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Old 11-13-2008
Brilliant!! Thank you both so much!! I'm very slowly getting my head around this stuff, this is a great help Smilie
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