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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:16:27 +0000
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tab-delimited to csv
Message-ID:  <49999F6B.4020400@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <A1268853-0066-4604-AB9E-7D45E738BF32@identry.com>
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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 I 
> hate to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Thanks: John
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if you just dealing with a few files, you could use thing like vi or and 
editor w/ regex capbilites to search and replace tabs w/ comma's.

perl -pe ’s/\t/,/g’ table.tsv > table.csv



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