Ok,
Lets add a "tr" for old times sake:
tr '\t' '|' < FILE > NEWFILE
Steve,
You getting all of this? ;-)
(be careful what you ask for...)
We should have run this through the [EMAIL PROTECTED] group.
Have fun,
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Rick L. Mantooth
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Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, 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.
>
> please help.
>
> this would save so much time for me.
>
>
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