2009/9/17 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: > i don't know why this can't be done with sed. if 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