04-29-2011
its not working ..The input file is pasted with sapces and i need output file in CSV format.
egrep -v '^$|^#' inputfile.txt | tr ' ' ',' >outputfile.csv is working but all spaces are replaced by commas . i need onmy one comma between each field.so total 5 commas between 5 fields..
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