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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

Name: Luke Chi
Date: August 17, 2005 at 11:27:18 Pacific

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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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thanks for your help parthiban

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