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Aug 10, 2020 at 12:37 comment added Ed Morton You're welcome. The main benefit to this approach is it'll run orders of magnitude faster than calling sed in a loop reading one line at a time - see why-is-using-a-shell-loop-to-process-text-considered-bad-practice.
Aug 10, 2020 at 11:02 comment added 0m3rta3 While I used the initial answer to solve my problem this one has been super handy because of its sheer versatility. I had no idea how versatile awk was. Really helped give me a better understanding of awk and the amazing uses for NR, FNR, ORS, OFS etc along with sub, map & ARGIND. Thank you!
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