Your "\t"'s are causing the output to *display* with the tabs expanded and replaced with space characters. You need an actual tab character instead.
Delete the "\t"'s in the print command and instead, inside the double-quotes type <CTRL-V><CTRL-I> to insert an actual tab character. In vi use the ":set list" command to show you the tab characters as a "^I" and end-of-line as a "$".
Output redirected to a file, viewed in vi with :set list looks like this:
Now any program expecting a tab-delimited file will see the actual tab characters and parse correctly.
Hello,
I am trying to parse a file that resembles the last three groupings into something looking like the first two lines. I've fiddled with sed and awk a bit, but can't get anything to work properly. I need them separated by some delimiter. The file is some 23,000 lines of the stuff....
... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a small requirement where i need to sum up a column in a text file.
Input file
66ab 000000 534385 -00000106350.00
66cd 000000 534485 -00013364511.00
66ad 000000 534485 -00000426548.00
672a 000000 534485 000000650339.82... (5 Replies)
witam
potrzebuje polecenia porownujacego koumny na podstawie n-ostatnich znakow danej linnijki tj
mam 2 koumny AiB zawierajace ciag dowolnych znakow (dlugosci w kazdej linijce mga byc rozne wiec uzycie substra odpada)
A B
ewewewabc nbgujnnabc... (3 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a file in this format (like a matrix)
- A B C .. X
A 1 4 2 .. 2
B 2 6 4 .. 8
C 3 5 5 .. 4
. . . ... .
X . . ... .
and want to convert it into a file with this format:
A A = 1
A B = 4
A C = 2
...
A X = 2
B A = 2
B B = 6
etc (2 Replies)
hello all,
i have an input file like that
A A X0
A B X1
A C X2
...
A Z Xx
B A X1
B B X3
....
Z A Xx
Z B X4
and i want to have an output like that
A B C D
A X0 X1 X2 Xy
B X1 X3 X4 (4 Replies)
Dear users,
I have this problem, this is the example:
123 (tab) A (tab) B (tab) C (tab) 456
where the (tab) is actually the \t delimiter. I need to replace the A B and C for D E and F, this is:
123 (tab) D (tab) E (tab) F (tab) 456
The thing is that my file is quite long and this... (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a file which is tab separated like that:
PHE_205_A TIP_127_W ARG_150_B
MET_1150_A TIP_12_W VAL_11_B
GLU_60_A TIP_130_W ARG_143_B
LEU_1033_A TIP_203_W ARG_14_B
SER_1092_A TIP_203_W
THR_1090_A TIP_203_W
SER_1092_A TIP_25_W ... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have a tab separated. I want to replace all the "&" in 8th column of the file with "and" .I am trying with
awk -F, -vOFS=\\t '{$8=($8=="&")?"and":$8}1' test> test1.txt
My file is abc def ghk hjk lkm hgb jkluy acvf & bhj hihuhu fgg
me mine he her go went has has & had hgf hgy
... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I'm trying to read a tab separated file and apply some functions on each column. I have an issue with empty column.
Exemple:
$ #cat with the sed to allow you to see my tab
$ cat foo.txt| sed 's/\t/;/g'
a;1;x
b;;yI wanted to something like that:
while read col1 col2 col3
do
... (4 Replies)
In the gawk below, I am trying to output the file tab-deliminated but don't think that is the correct syntax. Thank you :).
gawk OFS='/t' '{sub(/-+/,"",$2); ar=$0}
END{n = asort(ar)
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
print ar}' file (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
tabs
TABS(1) BSD General Commands Manual TABS(1)NAME
tabs -- set terminal tabs
SYNOPSIS
tabs [-n | -a | -a2 | -c | -c2 | -c3 | -f | -p | -s | -u] [+m[n]] [-T type]
tabs [-T type] [+[n]] n1[,n2,...]
DESCRIPTION
The tabs utility displays a series of characters that clear the hardware terminal tab settings then initialises tab stops at specified posi-
tions, and optionally adjusts the margin.
In the first synopsis form, the tab stops set depend on the command line options used, and may be one of the predefined formats or at regular
intervals.
In the second synopsis form, tab stops are set at positions n1, n2, etc. If a position is preceded by a '+', it is relative to the previous
position set. No more than 20 positions may be specified.
If no tab stops are specified, the ``standard'' UNIX tab width of 8 is used.
The options are as follows:
-n Set a tab stop every n columns. If n is 0, the tab stops are cleared but no new ones are set.
-a Assembler format (columns 1, 10, 16, 36, 72).
-a2 Assembler format (columns 1, 10, 16, 40, 72).
-c COBOL normal format (columns 1, 8, 12, 16, 20, 55)
-c2 COBOL compact format (columns 1, 6, 10, 14, 49)
-c3 COBOL compact format (columns 1, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 67).
-f FORTRAN format (columns 1, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23).
-p PL/1 format (columns 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61).
-s SNOBOL format (columns 1, 10, 55).
-u Assembler format (columns 1, 12, 20, 44).
+m[n], +[n]
Set an n character left margin, or 10 if n is omitted.
-T type
Output escape sequence for the terminal type type.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and TERM environment variables affect the execution of tabs as described in environ(7).
The -T option overrides the setting of the TERM environment variable. If neither TERM nor the -T option are present, tabs will fail.
EXIT STATUS
The tabs utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO expand(1), stty(1), tput(1), unexpand(1), termcap(5)STANDARDS
The tabs utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
A tabs utility appeared in PWB UNIX. This implementation was introduced in FreeBSD 5.0.
BUGS
The current termcap(5) database does not define the 'ML' (set left soft margin) capability for any terminals.
BSD May 20, 2002 BSD