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Name: kparthiban
Date: August 17, 2005 at 08:02:40 Pacific
Subject: replacing the path definition
OS: unix
CPU/Ram: 255
Comment:


Please help me in writing a script
I have to write a script for replacing a
line in a file

For Eg.
1)The file name is testfile
2) The testfile contains about 100 lines
3) I want to replace the 10th line and 20th
line in the file

4) The line is in the format as follows

10th line--setenv WORK_DIR /opt/informix/
this should be replaced with the following
new line---setenv WORK_DIR /home/informix/

the 20 th line as like same format

so how to write a script to replace the
multiple lines in the file

Thanks in advance

parthiban


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Response Number 1
Name: Luke Chi
Date: August 17, 2005 at 11:27:18 Pacific
Reply:

awk ' { if ( NR == 10 || NR == 20 ) sub(/^setenv WORK_DIR \/opt\/informix\/$/, "setenv WORK_DIR /home/informix/"); print } ' input.txt

Luke Chi


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Response Number 2
Name: kparthiban
Date: August 18, 2005 at 03:20:01 Pacific
Reply:

thanks for your help

parthiban


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