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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:55:43 +0200
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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] awk help; not plan9 matter
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2009/9/17 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> i don't know why this can't be done with sed. =A0if 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