On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 03:12:43PM -0800, Steve Lee wrote:
> can someone show me a quick
> script to insert | in place of tabs
>
> for example: i have 40 lines with many columns
> delimited by tabs that require it to be delimited
> by | but in excel i can't do that. so
> i would export the excel file as a text delimited by
> tabs than would like a script to insert | in place of
> the tab.
cat <file> | tr -s \\t "|" > <new.file>
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