Hi,
I can only assist with an awk script. Lets assume the file is as below.
[collins@Methuselah ~]$ cat my_file
when,where,how,why
23,3,,90
cat,dog,cow,hare
car,bike,,truck
Result.
[collins@Methuselah ~]$ awk -F"," -v OFS=, '{$3="VALUE"; print $0 }'
my_file
when,where,VALUE,why
23,3,VALUE,90
cat,dog,VALUE,hare
car,bike,VALUE,truck
Am not sure of a one line sed command.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, loial <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a comma seperated file and I need to replace the contents of column
> 3 in every line with the same value.
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> However the existing content of this column is variable(and can be
> non-existent i.e no value between the commas, so I cannot do a straight
> replacement to every line.
>
> Is this possible to do in sed?
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