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Increment a number using awk or sed

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Need help with awk or sed script. I have multiple files with the following in first line NUMBER_COLUMNS=15 I want to increase the number by 1 so it should say NUMBER_COLUMNS=16 Thanks ..... salman

Name: Jim Boothe
Date: April 6, 2005 at 10:29:29 Pacific

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awk -F= '\ {if (NR==1 && $1=="NUMBER_COLUMNS")     print "NUMBER_COLUMNS=" $2+1  else     print}'

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