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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Inserting a character in certain column
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:52:21AM -0800, Szemerédy Gábor wrote:
> I need to insert a character in certain column in all rows of the file 
> using vi.

Sounds more like a job for awk than vi.

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