Shell Programming and Scripting

$ awk '{print $1, "|" substr($2,1,2)}' source> newfile

$ cat source
aaaaaa cvvvvvv
bbbbbb ddddddd
wwww cccccds

$ cat newfile
aaaaaa |cv
bbbbbb |dd
wwww |cc

sed "s/\(.*\) \(..\).*/\1 |\2/" source

#!/bin/sh
while read A B
do
  echo "$A |$(echo $B | cut -c1-2)"
done < file1

awk '$2="|"substr($2,1,2)' source

cat source | while read line
do
        var1=`echo "${line}"|cut -f1 -d" "`
        var2=`echo "${line}"|cut -f2 -d" "`
        var3=`echo ${var2}|cut -c1-2`
        echo "${var1} |${var3}" >> outputfile
done

aaaaaa |cv
bbbbbb |dd
wwww |cc

gaurav@localhost:~$ echo 'aaaaaa cvvvvvv
bbbbbb ddddddd
wwww cccccds' 
aaaaaa cvvvvvv
bbbbbb ddddddd
wwww cccccds
gaurav@localhost:~$ echo 'aaaaaa cvvvvvv
bbbbbb ddddddd
wwww cccccds' | perl -wln -e 'print $1," ","|",$2 if /^([a-z]+)\s([a-z]{2}).*$/'
aaaaaa |cv
bbbbbb |dd
wwww |cc
gaurav@localhost:~$