Cut parameterized command

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Hello, The below cut command will cut first 1 to 10 characters and also from 20th position to 25th position. cut -c1-10,20-25 tst.txt It works great. Is it possible to put some characters after each field. I want to have something like this 1234567890|ABCDEF I want to put some...

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