help awk

[dod79]

hello

i just have data like this
20000011145257 4 4356

and I need a for mat like this

2000 00 11 14 5257 4 4356

colud you please help me??

best wishes

 

[PHV]

In the awk man page pay attention to the substr function.

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[dod79]

thank you for help but I tried the substr option but I couldnt change the format(

 

[PHV]

Why not posting your actual code ?

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[Chube]

awk ' {
printf "%s %s %s %s %s %s %s\n",substr($1,1,4),substr($1,5,2),substr($1,7,2),substr($1,9,2),substr($1,11),$2,$3;
} ' file.txt