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need scripting help inserting characters into string
ahh, cut command thats what I was looking for, thanks.- deftones
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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need scripting help inserting characters into string
Hello all, I cannot figure this out for the life of me. I have tried a couple of different methods to do this with awk's printf function but couldn't get it. basically I have a 12 digit number that I want to place a decimal every 4 characters in the string. i.e. string1=abcd12345678 i would...- deftones
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