04-08-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by
alister
While that may be convenient, it's not doing anything in place. It creates a temp file and then clobbers the original with it. It's just a shortcut for the procedure in the post to which you are responding.
If you truly want to do it in place, you'll need to use something like ed or ex.
Regards,
Alister
I managed to do it with this command
Quote:
sed -e 's/[ ][ ]*/|/g' -e 's/[ ][ ]*/|/g' file
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text::tabs
Text::Tabs(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Text::Tabs(3pm)
NAME
Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)
SYNOPSIS
use Text::Tabs;
$tabstop = 4; # default = 8
@lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs);
@lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs);
DESCRIPTION
Text::Tabs does about what the unix utilities expand(1) and unexpand(1) do. Given a line with tabs in it, expand will replace the tabs
with the appropriate number of spaces. Given a line with or without tabs in it, unexpand will add tabs when it can save bytes by doing so
(just like "unexpand -a"). Invisible compression with plain ASCII!
EXAMPLE
#!perl
# unexpand -a
use Text::Tabs;
while (<>) {
print unexpand $_;
}
Instead of the "expand" comand, use:
perl -MText::Tabs -n -e 'print expand $_'
Instead of the "unexpand -a" command, use:
perl -MText::Tabs -n -e 'print unexpand $_'
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1996-2002,2005,2006 David Muir Sharnoff. Copyright (C) 2005 Aristotle Pagaltzis This module may be modified, used, copied,
and redistributed at your own risk. Publicly redistributed modified versions must use a different name.
perl v5.12.1 2010-04-26 Text::Tabs(3pm)