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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need to convert a pipe delimited text file to tab delimited Post 302940440 by Don Cragun on Sunday 5th of April 2015 05:55:59 PM
Old 04-05-2015
Copying a text file that is not in the proprietary Microsoft binary format expected by excel when it reads a file with the .xls extension obviously does not work (as you have already found).

Did you try what I suggested in post #2 in this thread?
 

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