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You can use "grep" without problems, you just have to construe your regexp accordingly:

grep '^[^,]*,[^,]*,223,' /path/to/input

searches for "line start, followed by any number of non-','...

I got a bit close with this:


$ sed "s/.\{8\}/&,/;s/[^\,]\{6\}/&,/g;s/,//" file1
20110624,000744,000693,000704,000764,


That's a garbled command - if ever I saw one! - even if SED didn't...