just for the record, the -p switch prints every line (after the
processing) for you, so
perl -pie 's/\t/|/g' FILENAME
would do it ( and the -i says edit it in place if you so desire)
charles
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Iain Wade wrote:
> perl -ne 's/\t/|/g; print;' FILENAME
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: RedHat Maillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:12 AM
> Subject: script
>
>
> > 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.
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