From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 14 6:46:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from tacni.net (mail.tacni.net [216.178.136.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EF3637B424 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 06:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom.oneil@tacni.com) Received: (qmail 58214 invoked by alias); 14 May 2001 13:46:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tacni.com) (216.201.173.186) by pendragon.tacni.net with SMTP; 14 May 2001 13:46:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3AFFE1CC.E89BA8D7@tacni.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:46:52 -0500 From: Tom ONeil Organization: Texas American Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Free Subject: sed question - phone list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings All; I have a script that handles our pop numbers and it requires I change the format of a large poplist we use for input. This is the format - CA,Anaheim,714,408,4411 and what I need is - CA,Anaheim,714-408-4411 because I don't enough perl to modify the script and I can't figure out how use sed to do it. awk will do the substitution, but removes the first 2 commas in the process. awk -F, '{print $1,$2,$3,-$4,-$5}' poplist Thoughts? snippets of code? Tom -- Thomas J. ONeil tom.oneil@tacni.net http://www.tacni.net/ "National power, local presence" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message