I am trying to write a find and replace script with AWK and I can't seem to get it to work. I need it to find this exact string *P*: and replace the P with a T or just replcare the whole thing with *T*:.
this is what I have tried
awk 'BEGIN {gsub(/\*P*:/,"\*T*:"); print}' ${INFILE} > ${INFILE}.out
Wbshrk
to replace exact string, you can try not using / /
awk '{gsub("*p*","")}1' file
awk '{gsub(/\*P\*:/,"\*T\*:"); print}' infile
Remove the BEGIN and escape the second * in the pattern and replacement too.
Does not work, just does nothing.
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Get this message
awk: warning: escape sequence `\' treated as plain `'
and then is sits and does nothing.
l> awk '{gsub(/*P*:/,"*T*:"); print}' infile
lala *P*T*:lala
If you have nawk on your system try using that. Or try that one:
sed 's/\*P\*:/\*T\*:/g' infile
lala *T*:lala
If still nothing of this works on your box, post a snippet of your input.