1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Can anyone let me know on how to convert a Tab delimited file to Comma delimited file in Unix Thanks!! (22 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

OK, let's set this up. I have a tab delimited file from excel. In my UNIX shell I have the following lines IFS=`printf "\t"` while read LINE_NO SKIP IGNORE_ERRORS OTHER do .... This works fine if there is something in every column like this. NOTE, those are tabs, not spaces. :) ... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I am trying to retrieve values from a tab-delimited file.I am using while read record value=`echo $record | cut -f12` done Where 12 is the column no i want retieve and record is one line of the file. But it is returning the full record. Plz help (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi: I'm writing a script that will take source / destination pathnames and metadata information from a tab-delimited input file, and then perform various directory creation, file moving and renaming, and tagging of files. I think I have what I need to do the file manipulation in the script -... (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Forum I have a tab delimited file that opens well in Openoffice calc (excel). But when I perform any operation in command line, it reads the file incorrectly. When I 'save As' the same file in office as tab delimited then it works fine. The file that I think is tab delimited is actually... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file which was pipe delimited, I need to make it tab delimited. I tried with sed but no use cat file | sed 's/|//t/g' The above command substituted "/t" not tab in the place of pipe. Sample file: abc|123|2012-01-30|2012-04-28|xyz have to convert to: abc 123... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi How to make tab delimited file to space delimited? in put file: ABC kgy jkh ghj ash kjl o/p file: ABC kgy jkh ghj ash kjl Use code tags, thanks. (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I have a tab deliminated file as below myfile.txt Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Guests I need data in below format starting from 4th position. myfile1.txt Administrators Guests the above one is just an example and there could... (15 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below . I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column. ex: Input Text file: 1|A|apple 2|B|bottle excel file to be generated as output as... (9 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello Everyone.. I want to replace the retail col from FileI with cstp1 col from FileP if the strpno matches in both files FileP.txt ... (2 Replies)