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# 1  
Old 05-10-2012
Insert 1 space using the command sed
Hi

I want to use sed to insert one space after the 10'th character in every line.
The lines are on this format:

Code:
2012-01-1012:30:55|7323456|65432
2011-02-0313:11:06|1223|3456
......
......

Does anyone know sed well enough to acomplish this?
If there is any other way around this without using sed I would also be very thankful.


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Mod Comment Please use code tags, thanks!
Last edited by zaxxon; 05-10-2012 at 05:54 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 05-10-2012
Code:
awk '{print substr($0,1,10)" "substr($0,11,length($0))}' input.txt
2012-01-10 12:30:55|7323456|65432
2011-02-03 13:11:06|1223|3456

---------- Post updated at 02:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:26 PM ----------

Code:
$ sed 's/\(..........\)\(.*\)/\1 \2/' input.txt
2012-01-10 12:30:55|7323456|65432
2011-02-03 13:11:06|1223|3456

---------- Post updated at 02:29 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:28 PM ----------

Code:
$ sed 's/\(.\{10\}\)\(.*\)/\1 \2/' input.txt
2012-01-10 12:30:55|7323456|65432
2011-02-03 13:11:06|1223|3456

# 3  
Old 05-10-2012
Thank you so much. All that worked perfect.
# 4  
Old 05-10-2012
One more Smilie

Code:
# sed 's/........../& /' infile

# 5  
Old 05-10-2012
Code:
 
$ perl -lane '$_=~s/^(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})(.*)/$1 $2/;print $_' input.txt
2012-01-10 12:30:55|7323456|65432
2011-02-03 13:11:06|1223|3456

---------- Post updated at 02:44 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:36 PM ----------

Code:
 
$ perl -lane '$_=~s/^(.{10})(.*)/$1 $2/;print $_' input.txt
2012-01-10 12:30:55|7323456|65432
2011-02-03 13:11:06|1223|3456

# 6  
Old 05-10-2012
Yet one more:
Code:
sed 's/./& /10'

# 7  
Old 05-18-2012
Code:
sed 's/\([0-9]\{2\}:\)/ \1/'
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