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Computer How to convert text to columns in tab delimited text file

Hello Gurus,

I have a text file containing nearly 12,000 tab delimited characters with 4000 rows. If the file size is small, excel can convert the text into coloumns. However, the file that I have is very big. Can some body help me in solving this problem?

The input file example,

L36+univ06->22260 ML_GENO 2/2 2/2 2/2 1/1 1/1 1/2 2/2 1/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/1
L36+univ06->23326 ML_GENO 2/2 2/2 2/2 1/1 1/1 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/1 2/2 2/1

I want a text file which looks like

L36+univ06 22260 c3 c4 c5 c6 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1
L36+univ06 23326 c3 c4 c5 c6 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1

Basically I want to delete -> and ML_GENO and insert 4 new coloumns after 2nd coloumn. Finally I want to separate 2/2 into 2 2.

can somebody help me on this? Thanks a lot.
 

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CDTOA(1)						      General Commands Manual							  CDTOA(1)

NAME
cdtoa - To convert the binary format of a dictionary back to text format. SYNOPSIS
cdtoa [-n] [-s] [-z] [-e] [-E] infilename [-h cixingfile ] [ usagefreqfile ] DEFAULT PATH
/usr/local/bin/cWnn4/cdtoa DESCRIPTION
To convert the binary format of the dictionary to text format, and output to standard output(stdout). infilename is the name of the input binary format dictionary. The output may be piped into a file by using the ">" command. For example, cdtoa dict.dic > dict.u "dict.u" here is the output text format dictionary, while the "dict.dic" is the input binary format dictionary. usagefreqfile may indicate more than one user usage frequency files (for a particular user). These usage frequency information will be reflected in the text format dictionary created. OPTIONS
-s To order the entries in text dictionary according to Pinyin or Zhuyin. -n To attach sequence numbers to the output. -z To convert the binary format back to text format in Zhuyin. (Note: default is Pinyin) -e If the Hanzi inside the text dictionary contains characters such as space and tab, they will be compacted to special format. (Default) -E If the Hanzi inside the text dictionary contains characters such as space and tab, they will NOT be compacted to special format. -h cixingfile To specify the Cixing definition file. NOTE
1. The parts in [ ] are options. They may be omitted. 2. The Pinyin and Zhuyin dictionary has the same format. 3. The default conversion result of the text dictionary is in Pinyin. 13 May 1992 CDTOA(1)
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