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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] awk help; not plan9 matter
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:55:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a560a5d00909170955q374b811ye0c4714ebc1f3e2f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514dfa65203b6192c5332f7425c84e43@quanstro.net>

2009/9/17 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> i don't know why this can't be done with sed.  if the
> task is to just change the second field without messing
> with whitespace, why doesn't this work

As I said in my second post, neither the field (the problem with sed)
nor the string to be used as a replacement (no problem) is not known
in advance...
Apparently nobody reads but the 1st post... :)
Thanks!
Ruda



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-17 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17  8:23 Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17  8:37 ` matt
2009-09-17  8:52   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17  9:04 ` matt
2009-09-17  9:12   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 10:42     ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 12:35       ` yy
2009-09-17 12:55         ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 15:51     ` Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX
2009-09-17 16:02       ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 16:20         ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 16:55         ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2009-09-17 17:04           ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 17:10             ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 17:19               ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 17:34                 ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 20:33                   ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 20:46                     ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 21:09                       ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 21:22                         ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-09-17 21:24                         ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 14:16 ` Noah Evans
2009-09-17 14:45   ` roger peppe
2009-09-17 17:03   ` Rudolf Sykora

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