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input: | 123456789|
output:|123|45|

no leading or tailing space in every field.

What if two field being cut are next to each other, the delimiter will not be inserted?
cut -c1-3,4-5 --output-delimiter="|" input > output
The output will be:
12345

How to get 123|45?
...

:)
Thank you drl. You are so helpful.

Is there other way using other UNIX command? awk is not working for me.
giving me "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem" error message. :confused:

I have input like:
1234567890

cut -c1-3,6-7,9-10 input > output

Now I got 1236790.

I want to insert space between each cut. So the output like:
123 67 90

Can anybody help?
Thanks.

Thank you drl!
It works well.
:b:

That's just a sample file. In a real world, we don't know how many '|' to append. Is there any way to count the number of the '|' for the first line of the file?(All records have same number of '|')....

Yes. I am aware of that. I am thinking of appending '|' at the end of each line of oldfile. But I am stucked at How to count the number of '|' just for the first line?(All lines have the same pipe...

I have two sorted files.
newfile has records like:
aaa|bbb|ccc|||
ddd||eee|fff||

oldfile has records like:
aaa|bbb|ccc|
ggg||hhh|fff

The output should like:
ddd||eee|fff||

I use comm...