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From: dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Dave Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: How to insert a space down a table, using vi?
Message-ID: <1991May29.174023.6165@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
Date: 29 May 91 17:40:23 GMT
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In <1991May28.214142.8549@umbc3.umbc.edu> rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:

>With large files you may prefer using sed rather that vi, as in:
>tail +2 infile | sed 's/..../& /' >outfile

That would lose the first line of the file; probably not what was
intended.  How about:

    sed '2,$s/..../& /' >outfile

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