sed command

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Hi,
I have a variable say NUM="9.126.145.110"

I need to get the output as 9,126,145,110

I tried with sed command as sed s/\./,/ $NUM

But it didnt work

Please help..:confused:

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sed -e's/\./,/g'

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or it can be with $NUM as

echo $NUM|sed -e's/\./,/g'
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 echo $a | sed "s/\./,/g"
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It works..

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bash, ksh93:

echo ${NUM//./,}

and with the right locale:

printf "%'d\n" ${NUM//.}

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Otherwise:

echo $NUM | sed 'y/./,/'

echo $NUM | tr . ,
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You can also get rid of the pipe:

sed 'y/./,/' <<< $NUM
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awk -F. '{$1=$1}1' OFS=, <<< $NUM