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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting CSV formatting with prefixing, appending and padding field Post 302274550 by Annihilannic on Thursday 8th of January 2009 12:49:19 AM
Old 01-08-2009
No need to run sed multiple times; you can have multiple commands in a sed script. Try this:

Code:
sed '
  s/^\(....\)\(.*\)/\2      \1/
  s/^.*/CODE,&/
  s/$/,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,/
' input.csv > output.csv

The second command there identifies a 4 character substring and a rest-of-string substring, then reinserts them into the replacement with a six-character separator (much like & does, but it inserts the entire match).

However you could simplify that further and do it in one step, e.g.:

Code:
sed 's/^\(....\)\(.*\)/CODE,\2      \1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,/' input.csv > output.csv

 

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