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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting use regexp to insert newline within a line Post 302300209 by Franklin52 on Monday 23rd of March 2009 01:58:47 PM
Old 03-23-2009
Try this assuming your sed version supports '\n' as a newline:

Code:
sed 's/\(.*\)\(..:..:..:..:..:..:..:..\)\(.*\)/\1\2\n\3/' file

Otherwise (2 lines !):

Code:
sed 's/\(.*\)\(..:..:..:..:..:..:..:..\)\(.*\)/\1\2\
\3/' file

Regards
 

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id3tool

ID3TOOL(1)						      General Commands Manual							ID3TOOL(1)

NAME

       id3tool - a command line editor for id3 tags.

SYNOPSIS

       id3tool [options] files ...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page is for the id3tool command.

       id3tool is a program that can be used to view and edit id3 tags from the command line.

       When invoked from the command line with filenames and no options, it will display the used fields of the id3 tags.

       When invoked from the command line with filenames and "set" options, it will change the id3 tag fields specified to the specified values on
       all the files.

       Due to limitations in the ID3v1 specification, most fields are limited to 30 characters.

       The note field is limited to 28 characters if a track number is in use.

       You can force a tag to be v1.1 by using a specifying a non-zero track number, or force a tag to be v1.0 by specifying  a  track	number	of
       zero (0).

OPTIONS

       The  programs  follow  the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A complete list of options are
       included below.	For a complete description, use the help option.

       -t, --set-title=WORD
	      Sets the title to WORD

       -a, --set-album=WORD
	      Sets the album to WORD

       -r, --set-artist=WORD
	      Sets the artist to WORD

       -y, --set-year=YEAR
	      Sets the year to YEAR [4 digits]

       -n, --set-note=WORD
	      Sets the note to WORD

       -g, --set-genre=INT
	      Sets the genre code to INT (the codes can be acquired from the genre list.)

       -G, --set-genre-word=WORD
	      Sets the genre to WORD (given that WORD is from the genre list.)

       -c, --set-track=INT
	      Sets the track to INT

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

       -l, --genre-list
	      Shows the genre list.

AUTHOR

       id3tool and this manual page were written by Chris Collins <xfire@xware.cx>

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