[ale] another darn sed/awk question - disregard

Christopher Bergeron christopher at bergeron.com
Thu Jul 24 11:17:13 EDT 2003


Nevermind, I figured it out.

Figures!

Grrr...
CB



Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> Ok, so I'm sitting here beating my head on my desk trying to get awk 
> and/or sed to display the first 8 characters of a line, a space, and 
> then the rest of the line.
>
> example.txt
> ABCDEFG1234567890 xxxxxxxx
> BCDEFGH2314234233 xxxxxxxx
> CDEFGHIJ3748374834 xxxxxxxx
> ad nausem...
>
> I'd like to create:
> ABCDEFG [space] 1234567890 [space] xxxxxxxxx
>
> Sounds simple enough right? I can't seem to figure it out! I've tried 
> combinations of sed/awk and cut but all to no avail.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me here?
>
> Thanks,
> CB
>
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