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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SED - Unable to replace with <tab> Post 302673975 by Corona688 on Wednesday 18th of July 2012 05:03:05 PM
Old 07-18-2012
It may also be convenient to use awk for this. It has two special variables, FS(input separator) and OFS(output separator). Set them appropriately and do any modification to the input string( even something pointless like $1=$1), and it converts them all as appropriate.

Code:
awk '{$1=$1} 1' FS="|" OFS="\t" inputfile  > outputfile

You could even use tr to do this.

Code:
tr '|' '\t' < inputfile > outputfile

Both tr and awk should always accept \t. Old crusty versions of sed sometimes don't.
 

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native2ascii(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   native2ascii(1)

NAME

       native2ascii - native to ASCII converter

SYNOPSIS

       native2ascii [ options ]
	    [ inputfile [outputfile]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  Java  compiler  and  other	Java  tools  can  only process files that contain Latin-1 or Unicode-encoded (udddd notation) characters.
       native2ascii converts files that contain other character encoding into files containing Latin-1 or Unicode-encoded charaters.

       If outputfile is omitted, standard output is used for output.  In addition, if inputfile is omitted, standard input is used for input.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -encoding encoding_name
	    Specifies the encoding name that is used by the conversion procedure.  The default encoding is taken from system property  file.encod-
	    ing.   The encoding_name string must be one taken from the first column of the table of supported encodings in the Supported Encodings
	    document:

	    http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html

       -reverse
	    Performs the reverse operation: converts a file with Latin-1 or Unicode-encoded characters to one with native-encoded characters.

       -Joption       Pass option to the Java virtual machine, where option is one of the options described on the man page for the java  applica-
		      tion  launcher, java(1). For example, -J-Xms48m sets the startup memory to 48 megabytes. It is a common convention for -J to
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