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11-07-07, 16:13

MonkeyMM

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a simple 'awk' doesn't work?!

just want to replace the space and "go" in the sample file to No space and "GO", so I think something like follows would work, but not... couldn't figure out what's wrong... please help!

awk '{ sub(" go", "GO"); print}' test2.txt
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

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11-08-07, 04:17

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You'd do better just using the sed command

Code:

cat test2.txt | sed 's/ go/GO/'

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11-09-07, 15:39

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On Solaris [/usr]/bin/awk is too old and broken.
Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.

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