Unix questions - Re: Unix Need Help with auto incrementing a field between delimiter.

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Re: Unix Need Help with auto incrementing a field between delimiter.

Rainer Temme

2005-11-30, 5:55 pm

AMBROZE schrieb:
> This is what I currently have, but it replaces all instances in the
> file with the value of $cnt.
>
> cnt=000000001
> awk 'BEGIN {FS = "[*~]" ; OFS = "*" }
> {
> $3 = "'$cnt'"
> print $0
> }' $file

Hi Ambroze,

how about the following modification:

awk 'BEGIN {FS = "[*~]" ; OFS = "*" ; CNT=1; }
{
$3 = sprintf("%09d",CNT++);
print $0
}' $file

Regards ... Rainer