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replacing commas with ¦'s

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krpst19

krpst19

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Jun 22, 2001
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I have a text file that has several hundred lines. I would like to replace the commas in each line with |'s. Is there an easy way to do this?
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ooops - wrong replacement [ , => | ]

sed -e 's/\,/\|/g' myFile.txt

 
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