Inserting Colons into a list of Mac Addresses

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Charles Hines picture Charles Hines · Jun 30, 2009 · Viewed 37.3k times · Source

I have over 500 MAC addresses and I'm trying to find a simple way to insert colons between every 2 characters.

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Matt picture Matt · Jun 30, 2009

You could get notepad++ and do a search and replace with regex like search for (..) and replace with \1:

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