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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to add a character after the first word/space on each line? Post 302964881 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 20th of January 2016 01:12:47 PM
Old 01-20-2016
Try:
Code:
sed 's/ / - /2' file

Note that this also leaves lines that don't have two <space> characters in them unmodified.
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OPTIONS

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