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Old 12-08-2006
anbu23 anbu23 is offline Forum Advisor  
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SED solution
Code:
cd /a
for file in *
do
    sed "2 s/\(...\).\(.*\)/\1\\
    X \2/" $file > tmp
    mv tmp $file
done