a lot of people pipe to sed but you don't need to. you can do regex subs right in awk. see sub and gsub. sub(r, t, s) substitutes t for

a lot of people pipe to sed but you don't need to. you can do regex subs right in awk. see sub and gsub. sub(r, t, s) substitutes t for the first occurrence of the regular expression r in the string s. If s is not given, $0 is used. gsub same as sub except that all occurrences of the regular expression are replaced; sub and gsub return the number of replacements. (this is awk from osx, which i think is nawk)