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# 1  
Old 05-20-2009
Replace with tab
I have text file, i want to replace all the charecters with tab.
suppose:
cat abc.txt
dfjkdf
dfdfd
fd
fd

the output should have 4 lines and each line will have 1 tab.

Thanks
Smilie
# 2  
Old 05-20-2009
Try:
Code:
awk '{print "\t'}' inputfile > outputfile

Jean-Pierre.
# 3  
Old 05-21-2009
Thanks. this works fine for me.
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