Re: [9fans] awk help; not plan9 matter

[Rudolf Sykora]

2009/9/17 matt <maht-9f...@maht0x0r.net>:
> awk '{a=$2; sub(a, "hell"); print}' file

The trouble with this is that the same string can appear more than
once (before, after the field, ...), so the simple substitution isn't
enough.
Ruda