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goldtop

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Hi I have space delimited file I would like to turn into a CSV. Basically, I want to replace the spaces with commas. Can awk do this for me?
 
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Try:

awk ' {
gsub(/[\t ]/,",",$0)
print
}'
 
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tr ' ' ',' < myTextFile.txt vlad
+---------------------------+
|#include<disclaimer.h> |
+---------------------------+
 
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