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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help required Post 302691031 by scigeek on Thursday 23rd of August 2012 06:04:38 PM
Old 08-23-2012
help required

Hi Everyone,

I need a little help in manipulating a file. This is what I need.

I need to move each line barring the top 3 lines, to the right by a 8 (or some specified number ) of places.

Example BEGIN:

Code:
Vertices 
Edges
Archs
1443   4042
862    4821
254    1177

I want to move the columns to the right by 8 places, that is,

Code:
Vertices
Edges
Archs
********1443    4042
********862    4821
********254    1177

Example END:

NOTE: HERE * represents an empty or white space.

I have about 30,000 such lines and so moving them to the right manually is not possible. I am wondering if there is a way to quickly do it using sed or something.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Last edited by methyl; 08-23-2012 at 08:02 PM.. Reason: please use code tags so we can see the spacing in your data
 

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DH_INSTALLDEB(1)						     Debhelper							  DH_INSTALLDEB(1)

NAME
dh_installdeb - install files into the DEBIAN directory SYNOPSIS
dh_installdeb [debhelperoptions] DESCRIPTION
dh_installdeb is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files into the DEBIAN directories in package build directories with the correct permissions. FILES
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