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Sadhun
Sadhun

Reputation: 264

Substitute only the first delimiter and leave the rest untouched

I have the file below:

sadhun:ganesh:02/02/1990:345
Hari:Prasad:30/05/1989:567

I need to replace only the first colon ':' with a space and leave the other colons untouched.

I tried in awk but was only able to modify all the colons.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (1)

kev
kev

Reputation: 161874

Try this command:

sed -i 's/:/ /' input.txt

It'll only replace the 1st : to whitespace.

The -i option is for editing file in place.

Upvotes: 2

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