Fast way to replace all Tabs in text file with Pipe?

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Fast way to replace all Tabs in text file with Pipe?

Post by Julie » Thu Nov 14, 2013 10:31 pm

Hi guys,

Anyone have a recommendation for the FASTEST way to replace all tab characters with the pipe symbol in HUGE text files?
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Re: Fast way to replace all Tabs in text file with Pipe?

Post by JimKnicely » Fri Nov 15, 2013 4:33 am

Hi,

So far, the following has worked for me:

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sed -i 's/\t/|/g' file_name
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Re: Fast way to replace all Tabs in text file with Pipe?

Post by Julie » Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:58 pm

Thank you, Jim! That works great on CentOS!
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Juliette

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