Presently I think sed is the tool, as eventually the input will be a multi-line text file;
cat $FILE | sed -e 'fiddle about with every line' > $OUTPUT gc On 28 June 2011 13:55, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Glenn Cogle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all sed gurus (& wannabes like me), > > > > Wanting to `sed` beyond my present understanding; > > > > echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | sed 'keep first 5 chars, then append a > Z > > to every fourth char thereafter, and keep the leftovers too' > > > > ie > > > > abcdefghiZjklmZnopqZrstuZvwxyZz > > > > I think sed would be capable of this - but haven't proven it yet. > > > > gc > > Is sed the tool for this? I would have thought python might be the > answer, although don't ask me to actually do it). Or perl perhaps. > > if you want to cut up a string, cut can be quite useful. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >
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