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Old 12-12-2012
Is it possible to introduce a character using sed?
I need to reformat a text using sed command like

Text: 160845
Output: 16:08:45

Please help me how this can be done using sed.
Thanks in adv
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Old 12-12-2012
Code:
echo 160845 | sed 's/\(..\)\(..\)/\1:\2:/'
16:08:45

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