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You can then go for :

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sed 's!\(...\)\(...\)..!\2\1!' yourfile

or (a little more "secure")

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sed 's!\(../\)\(../\)..!\2\1!' yourfile

Note that when you go from YYYY to YY you loose information and may lead to ambiguous situation (12 could be 1912 or 2012 ...) even if the range of data you work with, will most probably be 2012 than 1912, it is always better to think of potential issue before than after

Maybe it would be better to convert the YY into YYYY in the other file instead ?? ...

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