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Old 02-24-2009
How to print first two words two times using SED...

I have string as and I want to print first two words as output.

Last edited by Diggi; 02-24-2009 at 10:15 AM..
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Old 02-24-2009
How about
Code:
echo "123:456 abc" |sed 's/[0-9:]*/& &/'

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Old 02-24-2009
Code:
echo '123:456 abc' | sed 's/^[^ ][^ ]*/& &/'

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Old 02-24-2009
Thanx..it worked
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