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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting convert new line to tab Post 302298458 by narang.mohit on Tuesday 17th of March 2009 02:30:29 PM
Old 03-17-2009
convert new line to tab

hey i m newbie i dont know whether this is happining in my terminal or is there any reason behind this
here it is
when i do
1.) sed -n 's/\t/\n/gp' space > enter #where space is tab seperated file
it works fine it give me a outupt that all tab seperated convert into column

but when i tried to reverse this it wount work
2.) sed -n 's/\n/\t/gp' enter > space

it wouldnt give me any output
i know there is an alternative for this
3.) cat enter | tr "\n" "\t"

i only want to know is there any reason behind the 2 case

thanx in advance
 

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XmTabListRemoveTabs(library call)										 XmTabListRemoveTabs(library call)

NAME
XmTabListRemoveTabs -- A convenience function that removes noncontiguous tabs SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h> XmTabList XmTabListRemoveTabs( XmTabList oldlist, Cardinal *position_list, Cardinal position_count); DESCRIPTION
XmTabListRemoveTabs removes noncontiguous tabs from a tab list. The function creates a new tab list by copying the contents of oldlist and removing all tabs whose corresponding positions appear in the position_list array. A warning message is displayed if a specified position is invalid; for example, if the value is a number greater than the number of tabs in the tab list. tablist Specifies the tab list. The function deallocates oldlist and the tabs it contains after extracting the required information. position_list Specifies an array of the tab positions to be removed. The position of the first tab in the list is 0 (zero), the position of the second tab is 1, and so on. position_count Specifies the number of elements in the position_list. RETURN
If oldlist or position_list is NULL, or position_count is 0 (zero), returns oldlist. Otherwise, this function returns the new tab list. The function allocates space to hold the returned tab list. The application is responsible for managing the allocated space. The applica- tion can recover the allocated space by calling XmTabListFree. RELATED
XmTabList(3) and XmTabListFree(3). XmTabListRemoveTabs(library call)
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