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Old 07-27-2009
Question Delimiter: Tab or Space?

Hello,

Is there a direct command to check if the delimiter in your file is a tab or a space? And how can they be converted from one to another.

Thanks,
G
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Old 07-27-2009
Try cat with the -t option, check your man page for more details.

Regards
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Old 07-27-2009
cat -vet filename
tr can be used to change them
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Old 07-27-2009
Use the "pr" and "expand" commands to expand tabs to spaces and to specify a tab width value.
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Old 07-27-2009
Thanks for the various replies!
~G
 
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