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in thread one liner to capture value of field and insert in another field

You mean the records are spread out across several lines? And what separates them?
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Re^4: one liner to capture value of field and insert in another field
by dirtdog (Monk) on Jan 28, 2015 at 16:24 UTC

    it's a pipe delimited file with around 300 columns. So i just need to take the date that would be in column 8 and insert it into column 11, but all other values stay the same.