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raj · #1 (**permalink**) 08-07-2009, 10:57 AM

My input file with some scientific data numbers is as follows:

Code:

1921681234
2254859678
6484684648

I need those numbers in the following format to feed to another program called foo:

Code:

1 9 2 1 6 8 1 2 3 4 
2 2 5 4 8 5 9 6 7 8

So how do I insert a blank character after each character?

nixcraft · #2 (**permalink**) 08-07-2009, 11:02 AM

Try:

Code:

sed 's/./& /g' input.txt | foo

sed will go through each line and add a blank after each character. The input of sed will be piped out to foo.

raj · #3 (**permalink**) 08-07-2009, 11:09 AM

thanks! worked like a charm!!

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Shell script to insert a blank character after each character

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