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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Replacing Comma by Tab Post 302135508 by Serious Sam on Monday 10th of September 2007 08:10:23 AM
Old 09-10-2007
Replacing Comma by Tab

Hi All,

i have a file test.txt as shown below,

1,test,test111
2,rest,rest222

i want to replace the commas by tab delimiter..,

it should be like,

1 test test111
2 rest rest222

i tried the following code,

Code:
sed 's/,/\\t/g' test.txt >> ouptut.txt

But, that dint work..,

Could any one help?

Thanks
 

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