1. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

How do I replace a tab with a space in scripts using sed/awk ? (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I've tried this: echo "${bold}User${norm} : u"\t"${bold}All Users ${norm} : a\t" and i got this output: Specific User : u\tAll User: a\t (14 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a commad that display the total each directory size in KB.Below the commad and o/p: ls -ltr | grep ^d | awk '{print $9}' | xargs du -sk output: what i want is the proper tab space b/w value and dir.? how to get that. thanks in advance (10 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, Is there a direct command to check if the delimiter in your file is a tab or a space? And how can they be converted from one to another. Thanks, G (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am using the default sed package that comes with solaris. (11 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to read lines from a file, and I'm using two methods 1 use while read line do done<filename 2 use line=`sed -n '3p' filename` however, in both of them, I notice that the tab between fields are automatically converted to space because I want to use awk over the... (10 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need help to remove tab delimited space in the $2 of a specific row. My file is like this:- file1.txt No_1 4 139 156 No_1 5 161 205 No_4 91 227 212 No_19 254 243 263 No_19 645 249 258 No_19 101 2492 2635 No_90 8 277 288... (5 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a space delimited text file but I only want to change the first space to a tab and keep the rest of the spaces intact. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Thank you for 4 looking this post. We have a tab delimited file where we are facing problem in a lot of funny character. I have tried using awk but failed that is not working. In the 5th field ID which is supposed to be a integer only of that file, we are getting corrupted data as below. I... (12 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

My file looks like 3 33 210.01.10.0 2.1 1211 560 26 45 1298 98763451112 15412323499 INPUT OK 3 233 40.01.10.0 2.1 1451 780 54 99 1876 78787878784 15423210199 CANCEL OK Aim is to replace the spaces in each line by tab Used: sed -e 's/ */\t/g' But I get output like this... (3 Replies)