[plug] sed or awk

[Bill Cullen]

> Rob Dunne wrote:
> 
> >          can anyone tell me how to replace repeated occurances of
> > that same pattern with a different replacement pattern?
> 
> > ie
> > the first  "1" is replaced with "1"
> > the second "1" is replaced with "2"
> > the third  "1" is replaced with "3"

I don't think this is what you want:

$ echo "111" | tr '111' '123'
123

Perhaps you need to give a bit more detail - perhaps a bit more 
about the nature of the input. Are these patterns on the same
line or different lines? Is each pattern made up of single or
multiple characters?

Bill
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