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Subject: Re: sed/awk, instead of Perl
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Barry Byrne wrote:
> Quoting "Steve Bertrand" <steve@ibctech.ca>:
> 
>  few passes over a few files.
>>
>> To put it plainly, can anyone, if it's possible, provide a single line 
>> sed/awk pipeline that can:
>>
>> - read email addresses from a file in the format:
>>
>> user.name TAB domain.tld
>>
>> - convert it to:
>>
>> user_name@example.com
>>
>> - write it back to either a new file, the original file, or to STDOUT
>>
>> Regards,
> 
> cat file.txt | ( while read user domain; do echo "$user@$domain"; done )

Thanks, but I don't think I was overly clear in my OP.

- the domain needs to change from domain.tld to example.com

- the user.name needs to be modified to user_name

Steve