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How to remove space and delimit a csv file?

Hi All ,

I am facing a small challenge i need unix command to remove space as well as replace "|" to "," in a csv file .

original file :

Code:

A | B | c | D
E | F | G | H
I | J  | K | L 
P | M | N | O

Expected o/p:

Code:

A,B,c,D
E,F,G,H
I,J,K,L 
P,M,N,O

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sed substitution

Code:

sed 's/ | /,/g' infile

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Try:

Code:

awk '{$1=$1; gsub(/\|/,",")}1' OFS= file

Code:

$ cat file
A | B | c |D        
E |F | G | H
I | J  | K | L 
P | M |   N | O   
$
$ awk '{$1=$1; gsub(/\|/,",")}1' OFS= file
A,B,c,D
E,F,G,H
I,J,K,L
P,M,N,O

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Code:

$ cat <<eof | sed "s/[[:space:]]//g;s/|/,/g"
A | B | c | D
E | F | G | H
I | J  | K | L 
P | M | N | O
eof

A,B,c,D
E,F,G,H
I,J,K,L
P,M,N,O

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Thank you sooooooooooooooo much all of you for the immediate response

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