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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk or sed to add field in a text file Post 302384232 by Scrutinizer on Monday 4th of January 2010 12:22:35 PM
Old 01-04-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Scrutinizer,
This is what I get, could be an old version of sed on a HP-UX:
Thanks for the feedback. I'll test in on HP-UX tomorrow..

---------- Post updated at 18:22 ---------- Previous update was at 18:17 ----------

Little bit shorter:
Code:
sed 's| \(..:\)|,\1|' file

(But fragile if there is a semicolon somewhere else.. I think awk is the more solid solution here...)
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-04-2010 at 01:35 PM..
 

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