Replace delimiters 1

[dodge20]

Hello, I have a file that is tab delimited. I was wondering how can I change the tab to |.

Dodge20

 

[bi]

To do it with vi type this:
:%s/ /|/g


The character you can't see between the first / and the second / is a tab.

To do it with sed:

sed 's/ /|/g' test.txt > test2.txt

 

[dodge20]

How do I get rid of the END that is at the end of each line?

Dodge20

 

[dodge20]

nevermind that was actually in the file. My real question is how do I get rid of quotation marks that surround a name?

Dodge20

 

[bi]

What do you see at the end of each line?

 

[dodge20]

I got it. Thanks

Dodge20

 

[bi]

If you want to get rid of all quotation marks and replace the marks with nothing, use this with vi:

:%s/"//g

and with sed:

sed 's/"/|/g' test.txt > test2.txt

What these things are doing is:

search (the s)/what-you-are-searching-for/what-you-are-replacing/global (the g)

the :% for vi is getting you to the command mode (or whatever it's called) to execute it.

Thanks for the star.