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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users how to search delimiter tab in a line and replace it Post 302224437 by palsevlohit_123 on Wednesday 13th of August 2008 06:50:26 AM
Old 08-13-2008
can you try out this

tr -s "\t" "#" <input_filename >output_filename
 

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dmpxlt(1)						      General Commands Manual							 dmpxlt(1)

NAME
dmpxlt - dump iconv translation tables to a readable format SYNOPSIS
output_filename] [input_filename] DESCRIPTION
dumps the compiled version of the codeset conversion tables into an ASCII-readable format that can be modified and used as input to genxlt(1) to regenerate the table for iconv(1). Options recognizes the following options: If this option is not selected, the data will be sent to standard output. will create an output file in the prescribed format, giving the filecode mapping between the two code sets, which can be edited and reused by genxlt(1) to create new tables for iconv(1). The entries are in hexadecimal. EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If is unset or null, the default value of "C" (see lang(5)) is used. If any of the internationalization variables contains an invalid setting, will behave as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See environ(5). If set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables. determines the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error and informa- tive messages written to standard output. determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of International Code Set Support Single and multi-byte character code sets are supported. RETURN VALUE
The following are exit values: 0 Successful completion. >0 Error condition occurred. EXAMPLES
This example creates the source file genxlt_input from the table FILES
All tables must be installed in this directory. SEE ALSO
iconv(1), genxlt(1), iconv(3C), environ(5) lang(5). dmpxlt(1)
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