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I'm new to bash and want to know a simple sed, awk, or grep script that will find all instances of 2 or more spaces and convert them to a single tab. Thanks for the help in advance.

Thanks rake. I think this will work for my purposes. I'll have to digest this. And what does %d mean? Thanks for all the replies.

awk '{printf("%d,%d,%d,\"%d %d\",\"%d...

I'm new to shell scripting and I have a file with positional columns. The rows look like this:

222 3333 44444 55 55 55 55 5555 59999
222 3333 44444 55 55 55 55 5555 ...

Thanks for both suggestions. These will get me on the path once I figure out what they're doing. I'll deconstruct with a new sed awk book I've ordered.

I want the output to look like this
Firstname\tLastname\tAge\tCitytDollar Amount\tSynopsis\n
xxxx\txxx \txx\txx\t$n,nnn\txxxxxxxxxxxxxx

And, I apologize, but I'm looking for a starting...

I'm new to awk and would appreciate a jump start.

I've got a text doc of people with first and last names, ages, home cities, and a phrase about the individual. I want to parse the text into...