Need to convert a pipe delimited text file to tab delimited
Hi, I have a rquirement in unix as below .
I have a text file with me seperated by | symbol and i need to generate a excel file through unix commands/script so that each value will go to each column.
ex:
Input Text file:
excel file to be generated as output as below
Last edited by Don Cragun; 04-05-2015 at 02:26 AM..
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Longhand using builtins only to show that it can be done, (there are much better methods), using OSX 10.7.5, default bash terminal:-
Results:-
IMPORTANT NOTE: You have asked for TAB delimiters but have shown SPACE delimiters so be aware that this is TAB not SPACE! Hence the hexdump.
Also trailing newlines can be a problem but not in this particular case...
EDIT:
What have you attempted so far?
Also there are only nelines are carriage returns needed with the newlines too?
Last edited by wisecracker; 04-05-2015 at 01:38 PM..
Reason: See above...
You lost me. There is nothing in post #1 in this thread that talks about converting | characters to tabs. That is much more easily done by the simple command:
What was requested was a way to convert a text file into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (presumably .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, or .xlx) format (all of which are proprietary Microsoft binary formats). I know that some versions of perl are able to do with when certain plugins are available, but converting a pipe symbol separated values file into a tab separated values file does not seem to make any progress towards the request stated in post #1 in this thread. Am I missing something?
hi As per my requirement i can change the input delimeter to comma "," instead of pipe symbol "|" in the input. I am using the below command to convert the unix file to a excel file but what happening is entire row 1 data is moving to single column in excel sheet . but i want in seperate columns based on the delimiter
You lost me. There is nothing in post #1 in this thread that talks about converting | characters to tabs. That is much more easily done by the simple command:
What was requested was a way to convert a text file into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (presumably .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, or .xlx) format (all of which are proprietary Microsoft binary formats). I know that some versions of perl are able to do with when certain plugins are available, but converting a pipe symbol separated values file into a tab separated values file does not seem to make any progress towards the request stated in post #1 in this thread. Am I missing something?
In my defence:-
1) The title, "Need to convert a pipe delimited text file to tab delimited"
2) OPs post #1 output shows space delimited.
3) My post #3 first line "(there are much better methods)", your simple one liner is what I would have done except the code I wrote was purely to show it could be done!
4) As we HAD, at the time, no real inupt from the OP as to what the OP's requirements were then all we have to go with are his input and output and the reply was done longhand deliberately. I assumed he wanted a '.txt' extension for Excel.
5) I read post #1 as the OP wanting to convert pipe separation to tab separation, (as a .txt extension), but being unsure whether 'CR' was required or not so left it out. Excle can load comma and tab separated files as '.csv' or '.txt' IIRC .
Copying a text file that is not in the proprietary Microsoft binary format expected by excel when it reads a file with the .xls extension obviously does not work (as you have already found).
Did you try what I suggested in post #2 in this thread?
Hi
i have a problem in my job
i try to convert an excel file (xls extention) to text file (tab delimited), but no result with this comand
cat xxx.xls > xxx.txt
Do you have eny idea?
PS: sorry for my english
Thanks!! (4 Replies)
Hi How to make tab delimited file to space delimited?
in put file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
o/p file:
ABC kgy
jkh ghj
ash kjl
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