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Rev

The reason why I would like to try with AWK specifically is because I tried it with sed before: { sed -e '/^>/!s/\./X/' } And although this worked for most of the files, two did not get edited. However, with your sed code it worked! Thanks!

TUnix
– TUnix

2020-04-24 07:19:23 +00:00
Commented Apr 24, 2020 at 7:19
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@TUnix That's because you lack the /g at the end of the s command. Your sed approach would only replace the first dot on each line, as if you had used sub() in place of gsub() in awk.

Kusalananda
– Kusalananda ♦

2020-04-24 07:26:58 +00:00
Commented Apr 24, 2020 at 7:26

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