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Name: Anomander Rake
Date: January 12, 2006 at 07:30:29 Pacific
Subject: Sorting a string/ file
OS: HP-UX
CPU/Ram: 10

Comment:

Hello all, I have a file with entries in the format
*****
01234ABCDEFGHIJKLMN 5 67.89
*****
I would like to extract the data in this format:
****
3 ABCDE 5 6
****
I can use "cut" to extract the data, but it won't have the recommended white spaces. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Anomander

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Response Number 1

Name: vicchai
Date: January 13, 2006 at 06:40:42 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Maybe you need to break it:
first=`cut -c 4`
next=`cut -c 6-10,20-23`
echo "$first $next"

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