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I want to replace 5th column across a file.

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August 23, 2011 at 00:25:10
Specs: Windows XP
how to replace 5th column across file in unix

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August 23, 2011 at 07:05:19
awk is a good tool for parsing files. Assuming that whitespace is the field delimiter, this replaces the 5th column with string "value":

awk ' { $5="value"; print } ' datafile.txt > newdatafile.txt


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