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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert character at specific location in a each line of the file Post 302983138 by greet_sed on Thursday 6th of October 2016 06:16:35 PM
Old 10-06-2016
Please use code tags for code snippet and quote tags for text input/output.

Example i gave is for file and it refers to line such as first , exclude last line.

Code:
sed -e '1{n};$!s/./&I/10' line

is wrong here.

Is below are contents of file or file names ?

Quote:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 293800206774 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
10210496781000100293800206774 % 30095 15962835
10210496781000100293800206774 $ 34099 17054579
10210496781000100293800206774 # 999 00000000
Here is what i can simulate with multiple files:

Code:
ls 
123.txt  456.txt  f1  f2

Code:
for file in *.txt
do
echo "File Name=" $file
sed '1{n};$!s/./&a/10' $file
done

Gives output :
Quote:
File Name= 123.txt
1234567890ABCD
1234567890aXYZ
1234567890aPQR
1234567890LMN
File Name= 456.txt
1234567890ccc
1234567890abbb
1234567890addd
1234567890eee
Once you are sure that this is what you want, you can use in-place edit option
Code:
-i

to update in the file itself. Please note , you can not undo .

Last edited by greet_sed; 10-06-2016 at 07:20 PM.. Reason: update code tags / add -i option
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