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Reputation:

sed - how match exactly number in line

Please advice , how to tell sed to match exactly the number

for example ,

regarding the file.csv file we want to change the word STATUS to OK only on line that start with number 1 (before the "," seperator )

but sed replace the STATUS to OK also on LINE that start with 12

so how to change my sed syntax to match exactly the first number before the separator?

 more file.csv

 1,14556,43634,266,242,def,45,STATUS
 12,4345,1,43,57,24,657,SD,STATUS
 3,1,WQ,435,676,90,3,44f,STATUS


  sed "/^1/ s/STATUS/OK/g" file.csv
  1,14556,43634,266,242,def,45,OK
  12,4345,1,43,57,24,657,SD,OK
  3,1,WQ,435,676,90,3,44f,STATUS

Output should be as the following

  sed .................   file.csv
  1,14556,43634,266,242,def,45,OK
  12,4345,1,43,57,24,657,SD,STATUS
  3,1,WQ,435,676,90,3,44f,STATUS

Upvotes: 0

Views: 347

Answers (1)

Jakub Kotowski
Jakub Kotowski

Reputation: 7571

One solution:

sed "/^1,/ s/STATUS/OK/g" file.csv

Upvotes: 3

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