Question

I have a text file like this:

$ cat test
12 13 2100 s
12 13 3100 s
100 13 100 s
12 13 300 s

I want the output to be like this:

$ cat test
12 13 22000 s
12 13 32000 s
100 13 2000 s
12 13 300 s

I only want to replace 100 in field 3 (once 100 is contained in $3) into 2000. How can I accomplish this job using awk?

Answer 1

Here’s one way using awk:

awk '{ sub(/100$/, "2000", $3) }1' file

Results:

12 13 22000 s
12 13 32000 s
100 13 2000 s
12 13 300 s