thank you it worked.
how can i put this into a file that i can
execute by typeing
conver <oldfile> <newfile>
if you don't mind.
Thank You again.
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 03:12:43PM -0800, Steve Lee wrote:
> > can someone show me a quick
> > script to insert | in place of tabs
> >
> > for example: i have 40 lines with many columns
> > delimited by tabs that require it to be delimited
> > by | but in excel i can't do that. so
> > i would export the excel file as a text delimited by
> > tabs than would like a script to insert | in place of
> > the tab.
>
> cat <file> | tr -s \\t "|" > <new.file>
>
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