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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Replace specific positions in a file Post 303031522 by Diver181 on Friday 1st of March 2019 01:57:55 PM
Old 03-01-2019
Replace specific positions in a file
I have a fixed-length positional file. I am trying to replace content of position 4-13 (length=10) with xxxxxxxxxx.
Sample 2 rows in this file:

Code:
H0187459823  172SMITH, JOE
H0112345678  172DOE, JANE

In this example 87459823 (from 1st line) and 12345678 (from 2nd line) (both in position 4-13) would be replaced with xxxxxxxxxx

Any help is much appreciated.
Last edited by vgersh99; 03-01-2019 at 03:02 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please!
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