I am working on a Shell script and I need to replace only number on line 13 with a number from another file.
file1:
line1 line2 ... Text: 95% ...
file2:
98.4256
The result should look like this:
file1:
... Text: 98.4256% ...
Basically I need to replace the number before % in file1 on line 13 with a number from file2 (the number in file2 is on line 1).
Thanks in advance for any tips.
sed "4 s/:.*/: $(cat file2)%/" file1
line1
line2
...
Text: 98.4256%
...
Change 4 to any other number of your requirement.
Contents of file1
cat file1
line1
line2
...
Text: 95%
...
Contents of file2
cat file2
98.4256