How to find if 3rd position in a record is space or not?? 1

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Hi All

How can we find out if the 3rd position and/or 4th in all the records of a flat file is space or not?

e.g

AB8798723498 20071201 ca94567
TC A9398js sfkji390809 20060108
JJ897987987 897897 2154863


How can we check if there is spaces or there is a character on 3rd and 4th position in a record.

Thanks for your help

 

[PHV]

What about this ?

grep -e '^.. ' -e '^... ' /path/to/fltafile

Hope This Helps, PH.
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