Insert character at specific location in a each line of the file
Hi All,
I am trying to write a shell script where it should insert character 'I' in 180th position of each line(except first and last line) of the file. Below is the script
Somehow sed 's/./I/180' $line is not working properly. Please help to achieve this. and also i need to do this starting line 2 and should exclude last line.
Please help.
Thanks
Bharat
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