From: Johnny Koen (Johnny.Koen@Investec.co.za)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 11:32:07 EDT
Hi All
I'm having trouble writing a script to search for a specific line in a
file and update a specific column in that line. For example
/usr/sbin/syslogd:1:Y:Y:Y:Y:N:-:-:SYSLOGD:it-operations:0835014718
0829291274
It must search the file until it reaches this line "the easy part" and
then as you can see the file is separated by ":" find the 8th field and
update it from Y --> N "the part I'm not getting right.
At this moment I'm using ex to edit and search for the line but the
updating of the column seems a bit more difficult to achieve. I know
that the easiest thing would be to search and delete the line and then
just add my modified line to the end of the file, but that is not the
proper way to do this. This line would not be the only line to edit, but
all the line looks the same "amount of clumns"
Many thanks is advance.
Cheers
Johnny
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