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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Append char to the end of string from Nth column Post 302407565 by danmero on Thursday 25th of March 2010 07:35:15 PM
Old 03-25-2010
This will append "c" at the end of 10th column.
Code:
awk '{$10=$10 "c"}1' infile

If you need a different solution please post a data sample.
 

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