03-17-2009
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Shell programmer, author
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 2,361
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Originally Posted by narang.mohit
hey i m newbie i dont know whether this is happining in my terminal or is there any reason behind this
here it is
when i do
1.) sed -n 's/\t/\n/gp' space > enter #where space is tab seperated file
it works fine it give me a outupt that all tab seperated convert into column
but when i tried to reverse this it wount work
2.) sed -n 's/\n/\t/gp' enter > space |
There can be no newline inside a line read from a file.
Quote:
it wouldnt give me any output
i know there is an alternative for this
3.) cat enter | tr "\n" "\t"
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No need for cat:
Code:
tr "\n" "\t" < enter
Or:
Code:
awk '{ printf "%s\t", $0 }' enter
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