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Copying characters on each line in a file
Hello,

I would like to copy the first and third char on each line of a file and place them in the 14h and 17th char positions. The file name is listed first and is 6 char's and the dir name is second and also same char size on each line.

The file has thousands of lines.

Initial file contents:

Code:
 012345 /dmm/0/0/stat-file
 6789AB /dmm/0/0/stat-file
 CDEF01 /dmm/0/0/stat-file

Final contents needed:

Code:
 012345 /dmm/00/02/stat-file
 6789AB /dmm/06/08/stat-file
 CDEF01 /dmm/0C/0E/stat-file

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locale

locale.h(3HEAD) 						      Headers							   locale.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       locale.h, locale - category macros

SYNOPSIS

       #include <locale.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The  <locale.h> header provides a definition for the lconv structure, which includes the following members. (See the definition of LC_MONE-
       TARY in locale(5).)

	 char	      *currency_symbol
	 char	      *decimal_point
	 char	      frac_digits
	 char	      *grouping
	 char	      *int_curr_symbol
	 char	      int_frac_digits
	 char	      int_n_cs_precedes
	 char	      int_n_sep_by_space
	 char	      int_n_sign_posn
	 char	      int_p_cs_precedes
	 char	      int_p_sep_by_space
	 char	      int_p_sign_posn
	 char	      *mon_decimal_point
	 char	      *mon_grouping
	 char	      *mon_thousands_sep
	 char	      *negative_sign
	 char	      n_cs_precedes
	 char	      n_sep_by_space
	 char	      n_sign_posn
	 char	      *positive_sign
	 char	      p_cs_precedes
	 char	      p_sep_by_space
	 char	      p_sign_posn
	 char	      *thousands_sep

       The <locale.h> header defines NULL (as defined in <stddef.h>) and the following as macros:

	 LC_ALL
	 LC_COLLATE
	 LC_CTYPE
	 LC_MESSAGES
	 LC_MONETARY
	 LC_NUMERIC
	 LC_TIME

       The preceding expand to distinct integer constant expressions, for use as the first  argument  to  the  setlocale()  function.  See  setlo-
       cale(3C).

       Additional macro definitions, beginning with the characters LC_ and an uppercase letter, can also be specified here.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       setlocale(3C), localeconv(3C), stddef.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), locale(5), standards(5)

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