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Old 06-28-2011
Removing hidden tabs
I want to know how can I remove all the tabs (\t) from a tab delimited file. In my file some of the rows only contain one column and rest are unoccupied but the tabs are there. When I performed some regular expressions to do substitutions like:
Code:
%s/\t/\/\/ /ig

all the hidden tabs are converted to //, which I don't want. How do I remove this unwanted tabs espeacillay on the rows that have only a single column entry.

LA
# 2  
Old 06-28-2011
try
Code:
tr -d "\t" myfile

# 3  
Old 06-28-2011
I think it didn't work. I think I need to add some options immediately after tr
# 4  
Old 06-28-2011
Code:
% cat input_file | tr -s "\t" '/' | sed 's,/$,//,g'

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Old 06-28-2011
Code:
tr -d '\011' <test.txt >out.txt

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