Hello folks
I have a text file abcd.txt and has a line starting with number '8'.
I have a string in this line starting at position 'a' to position 'b'
also this string is a number and have to be reduced by 1. there is also a problem that it has to be padded with zeros to make the string always with 6 characters.
eg: abcd.txt
content of this file:
1ahdhliehgoei
5abldflierjlijuero903489 034309842098
8000000020809832021090-34
the third line starting with 8 has to be changed. the string starts at position 4 to position 9.
so 000002 has to be reduced by 1 and shown as 000001
and the output should look like this in the same abcd.txt file.
1ahdhliehgoei
5abldflierjlijuero903489 034309842098
8000000010809832021090-34
how can this be changed in shell scripting
I would appreciate if someone can help me on this.
Thanks in advance....