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awk to find spaces and replace with tabs
Ed, Much obliged. For the redhat install I am using, I couldn't use nawk, but awk with the same context worked great. Thanks Ryan- missingbrain
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awk to find spaces and replace with tabs
I have searched high and low to find a working example of how you can use awk to search for each space in a file and replace it with a tab. E.g. input: I<sp>can't<sp>use<sp>awk<sp>very<sp>well. output: I<tab>can't<tab>use<tab>awk<tab>very<tab>well. Doesn't seem to difficult, but when I use \t...- missingbrain
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