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> From grass-lists-owner@max.cecer.army.mil Tue Feb  2 16:11:45 1993
> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 17:02:06 EST
> From: ngreeley@hanover-crrel.army.mil (Nancy Greeley)
> Sender: lists-owner@max.cecer.army.mil
> Reply-To: grassu-list@max.cecer.army.mil
> To: grassu-list@amber.cecer.army.mil
> Subject: s.in.ascii
> Content-Length: 654
> 
> 
> I have imported into 
> GRASS a sites file that has eastings, northings, and an elevation value.
> After running s.in.ascii there is also a pipe between each of these.
> I would like to have a pound sign, "#", before the elevation value as well
> (for use with s.menu option 6-convert site map to raster map where each
> #n is a category value).
> 
> Questions:
> Is there any way to add the # sign (some way that is not docmented or that
> I have missed) while running s.in.ascii?
> Is it possible to do it in the s.menu option 5-edit function?
> 
> I am not an awk or sed user, although I am now sitting down with the 
> books and beginning...
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
> -Nancy
> 

Well, awk will be a easy way to do this.

Try following commands under your GRASS prompt:

cd $LOCATION/site_lists

awk -F\| '{print $1"|"$2"|#"$3}' your_site_file > new_site_file


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