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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Source txt to be imported in xls as .csv Post 302513127 by gaur.deepti on Tuesday 12th of April 2011 11:55:19 AM
Old 04-12-2011
Hey , can you pls explain what the script is doing , I am working on a similar kind of script.
does the script needs filename as input or will it convert all the .txt files in path to files dir to .csv files.I tried to execute the script it is giving an error as invalid iname

can you explain me the below part
while read FILENAME
do
tr '|' ',' < "$FILENAME" > "${FILENAME}.csv"

Thanks for your time

Regards,
Deepti
 

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