Re: search for charater "="

On 5/5/2008 2:31 AM, Nezhate wrote:
> Hi there
> I'm using awk to search the character equal "=" and replace it with
> space character " " in file1. The result is redirected to another
> file2.
> 
> ----------------file1-------------------
> field1="data1"after there is some data...
> field2="data2"after there is some data...
> field3="data3"after there is some data...
> field4="data4"after there is some data...
> -----------------end_file1---------------------
> 
> I used this
> awk 's/=/ ' file1 >> file2

awk '{sub(/=/," ")}1' file1 > file2

	Ed.