On 24-Oct-2000 Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I have a comma delimited ex-database file and I want to replace the commas > with tabs. I tried using: > > sed s/,/\tab/ filename but no go. It was a guess anyway. I tried replacing > the tab with a * and it worked, but only for first line of items, mleaving > the rest of the fields with commas. >
you want sed -e 's/,//g'. sed -e 's/[[:space:]]/,/g' The [[:space:]] resolves to any whitespace (sorry, getting a tab is a little harder). The g on the end means replace this for every occurance, not just the first.
