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Re: Adding a TAB after a certain ammount of characters

by kennethk (Abbot)
on Apr 16, 2013 at 20:33 UTC ( [id://1029007]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Adding a TAB after a certain ammount of characters

xkcd://208: Regular Expressions to the rescue. 
perl -pi -e 's/^(.{17})(.{6})(.{31})(.{3})(.{3})/$1\t$2\t$3\t$4\t$5\t/
+' file.txt

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