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Old 02-28-2007
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Try this if you have a very big file (say 100k records)

cut -c1-9 file > tempfile1
cut -c10-15 file | tr -cd "\n" "X" > tempfile2
cut -c15- file > tempfile3

paste -d"" tempfile1 tempfile2 tempfile3
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