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[sabetik]

Is there a way to insert a tab (5 spaces) between each field. I would like to change the "," to 5 spaces.


This is my input file:
pn,description,price
AU015-, O/M 6FGCU33-45,4.96
AU315-1, O/M 7FBH15-25,5.15
AU317-, O/M 7FBCU15-55,5.15

 

[PHV]

Why not a simple sed ?
sed 's!,! !g' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[sabetik]

PH. Do not have access to sed. How about awk

 

[vgersh99]

wow that's something new - a system with 'awk', but with no 'sed'. What OS is that?

nawk -F',' -v OFS='     ' '$1=$1' myInputFile

vlad
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