Converting Tab delimited file to Comma delimited file in Unix - Shell Programming and Scripting

mona · #2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2006

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Originally Posted by charan81

Hi,

Can anyone let me know on how to convert a Tab delimited file to Comma delimited file in Unix

Thanks!!

You can use sed to convert the Tab delimited file to a comma delimited file

Code:

/export/home/test/mona>cat tab_del.dat
1       2       3       4       5
6       7       8       9       10
/export/home/test/mona>sed 's/        /,/g' tab_del.dat
1,2,3,4,5
6,7,8,9,10