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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Converting Space delimited file to Tab delimited file Post 302291544 by jeevs81 on Thursday 26th of February 2009 01:49:57 AM
Old 02-26-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by mahish20
can you try if this works?
in the above commnds mentioned instead of using \t enter <tab> directly
sed 's/<space>/<tab>/g' filename
Ashish,

I tried it. It is coming as follows.
Code:
-bash-3.00$ cat test.txt
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
a b c d
e f g h
-bash-3.00$ sed 's/<space>/<tab>/g' test.txt
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
a b c d
e f g h
-bash-3.00$ sed 's/ /<tab>/g' test.txt
1<tab>2<tab>3<tab>4
5<tab>6<tab>7<tab>8
a<tab>b<tab>c<tab>d
e<tab>f<tab>g<tab>h

What I've understood from the problem is my UNIX server doesn't recognize a tab delimiter or a tab at all.... I don't really know what the problem is.

I'm using SunOS.

Is there any way to simulate tab?
Please let me know.

Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Rajeevan D
 

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NAME
gendesc - Generate a test case description file SYNOPSIS
gendesc [-h|--help] [-v|--version] [-o|--output-filename filename] inputfile DESCRIPTION
Convert plain text test case descriptions into a format as understood by genhtml. inputfile needs to observe the following format: For each test case: - one line containing the test case name beginning at the start of the line - one or more lines containing the test case description indented with at least one whitespace character (tab or space) Example input file: test01 An example test case description. Description continued test42 Supposedly the answer to most of your questions Note: valid test names can consist of letters, decimal digits and the underscore character ('_'). OPTIONS
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