[plug] sed or awk

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Rob Dunne wrote:

>
> Hi List,
>          can anyone tell me how to replace repeated occurances of
> that same pattern with a different replacement pattern?

I don't know if perl is an option:

---
~$ cat a.txt
111111
~$ cat a.pl
while (<>) {
        s/1/++$i/eg;
        print;
}
~$ perl a.pl a.txt
123456
---

HTH

Yours Tony.

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