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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting csv file to excel issue Post 302482001 by Corona688 on Monday 20th of December 2010 10:47:46 AM
Old 12-20-2010
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Originally Posted by girish1428
Is there a way by which I can change the field separator from comma to something else, say a pipe or something?
How's awk or sed or whatever supposed to tell the data apart from the delimiters? It will have the same problem as excel. You need to create it with "|" instead of "," in the first place, not translate later. Or fix the code that's injecting the thousands separators or whatever they are.
 

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