On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:55:50AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: > Can anyone suggest a way to convert a tab-delimited file to csv using > standard unix utilities? I could whip up a Ruby script to do it, but
As long as the files don't contain commas themselves, it is a straightforward sed or perl command: replace '\t' with '","' And any field has internal double quotes, it becomes more difficult. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values > I hate to reinvent the wheel. I'd whip up that script. There is a shareware tab2csv utility for windows for $49.95: http://www.download32.com/info-pack-com-tab2csv-i31827.html OTOH, if you have a spreadsheet program like Gnumeric or OpenOffice installed, you might be able to script those to import from tab-delimited and export to CSV. Admittedly that is like using a nuke to kill a fly. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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