Posted by Dave Kelly on 04/08/07 22:59

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

>> I need to fill the [] with a number. I had wanted to write a shell script
>> to do that. I have googled for 2 days and have yet to discover how
>> to increment a numerical variable in 'sed'.
>
> Use awk, not sed, e.g.:
>
> awk 'BEGIN { n = 1 }
> { while ( sub(/[[][]]/,"[" n "]" ) ) ++n ; print }
> ' FILENAME > NEWFILE
Thanks Chris.............
Worked beautifully.
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