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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell scripts for record Re format Post 302356448 by cfajohnson on Friday 25th of September 2009 02:44:09 PM
Old 09-25-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shanks
I have few files from windows which are tab delimited or ‘|' delimited files.
I need to convert these files without any delimiter ( so in a way it would become variable length with no delimiter )
Can someone help me with the command in bourne shell scripts., ( I am trying with awk )

To remove the pipe symbols:

Code:
tr -d '|' < FILE

To replace the pipe symbols with spaces:

Code:
tr '|' ' ' < FILE

To remove the tabs:

Code:
tr -d '\t' < FILE

To replace the tabs with spaces:

Code:
tr '\t' ' ' < FILE

 

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EXPAND(1)							   User Commands							 EXPAND(1)

NAME

       expand - convert tabs to spaces

SYNOPSIS

       expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -i, --initial
	      do not convert tabs after non blanks

       -t, --tabs=NUMBER
	      have tabs NUMBER characters apart, not 8

       -t, --tabs=LIST
	      use comma separated list of explicit tab positions

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report expand bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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COPYRIGHT

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       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       unexpand(1)

       The  full documentation for expand is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and expand programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'expand invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.5						   February 2011							 EXPAND(1)
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