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This is a super simple way of adding a number of spaces to the beginning of each line of a given file.

• Add 3 spaces to the beginning of every line of a file:
  

  sed -i -e 's/^/   /' example-file.txt
  

Resources¶

• http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200616/add-space-5-times-at-the-beginning-of-each-line-in-a-text-file