topic Tab stop conversion in Operating System - HP-UX

Tab stop conversion

cbres00 — Wed, 28 May 2003 15:32:57 GMT

How do I convert tabs in a unix file to pipes?
Thanks in advance.
Cathy

Re: Tab stop conversion

Paddy_1 — Wed, 28 May 2003 15:35:56 GMT

try the translate command called "tr"

tr "\t" "|" < infile > outfile

should solve your problem

Re: Tab stop conversion

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 28 May 2003 15:38:10 GMT

Hi Cathy:

# sed sed 's//|/'g filename > filename.new

Note that instead of you should actually press the TAB key.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Tab stop conversion

cbres00 — Wed, 28 May 2003 15:39:01 GMT

Do I need an option? I get
"usage tr [ -cds ] ...."
message.

Re: Tab stop conversion

cbres00 — Wed, 28 May 2003 15:44:01 GMT

James' solution worked.
I didn't know I could use the tab key in a sed command. I thought I had to have an ascii character to translate. Very cool!
Thanks to all.
Cathy

Re: Tab stop conversion

Chris Vail — Wed, 28 May 2003 15:44:35 GMT

I have a different take on the tr command:
cat $INFILE|tr "\t" "|">>$OUTFILE

You could also use sed instead.

Chris

Re: Tab stop conversion

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 28 May 2003 15:55:38 GMT

Hi (again) Cathy:

I might add that some 'sed' versions, like the GNU one (but not the HP-UX version) support '\t' to denote the TAB character.

Regards!

...JRF...