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In addition to the suggestion Scrutinizer provided, note that the command in post #1 in this thread:
awk '$3="XYX"' FS=, OFS='|' filename.txtproduces the output:
> BRYAN BAKER|4/4/2015|518...

You could do this:
awk '{gsub(/[0-9]/,"& ",$3)}1' FS=\| OFS=\| file
Which would will append a space to any digit in field 3..

A bit more accurate (if needed) maybe would be to use the split()...

sed 's/ *| */,/g' file


or a shortened version of bartus11's

perl -pe 's/ *\| */,/g' file

awk -F "" '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) if (i==106||i==157||i==237) $i="xxx"}1' OFS="" urfile

I know its Perl, and it looks ugly, but if you don't mind that then here it goes:perl -pe 's/(.{105}).(.{50}).(.{79}).(.*)/\1xxx\2xxx\3xxx\4/' file > out.file I hope I didn't mess numbering ;)