Help with sed/substitution!

Bandit390 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-17-2008

I have file.txt

Code:

    1              4              7              9              3

I want to replace the tabs with a space, but my code doesn't work.

Code:

cat file.txt | sed 's/"\t"/ /g' > t.txt

But file is still the same. Numbers seperated by tabs instead of spaces.

Help?

Ikon · #2 (**permalink**) 11-17-2008

[code]
# sed 's/\t/ /g' file.txt > t.txt

[code]

manosubsulo · #3 (**permalink**) 11-18-2008

Try this.. may help u

Code:

cat file.txt | tr -s '\t' ' ' > t.txt

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