Re: [tlug] sed or awk or what?

[Bruno Raoult <br@example.com>]

What about this one?

sed -e '2 s/\(.* \)\{8\}[^ ]*\(.*\)/\170\2/' < A.txt

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On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 18:00, Sven Simon wrote:
> Here's a quick one:
> 
> I have a file where I'd like to change the 9th field on the second line
> to, say, 70. Field seperator is space. I would think to go with sed and
> do some sort of substitution, but I couldn't figure the right regex.
> 
> I know, it's probably a oneliner in perl, but I try to deepen my shell
> scripting knowledge. So, someone please lead me in the right direction.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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