How to replace tabs with spaces using sed...sed -i 's/[--TAB--]/ /g' file.txt
In place of --TAB-- , give CTRL + V followed by TAB.
This command will replace all tabs with 3 spaces in the file file.txt.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Replace Tab using Sed
Tags: unix shell tips
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The tab can be generated by the following also.
Ctrl + V and then Ctrl + I
http://unstableme.blogspot.com/search/label/Sed
Hi Jadu,
Any ways to replace Newline character?
a’tu’tua,
I have a post on removing newlines using sed, awk, tr.
http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2008/05/remove-or-replace-newlines-using.html
// Jadu
@Jadu
Great work... :)
No need for escaping stuff, you can just put:
sed -i 's/\t/ /g' file.txt
@kotnik No you can't, this will just search for the letter "t".
sed -r 's/[[:blank:]]/ /g'
This will replace spaces and tabs, with spaces.
More bracket expressions: http://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html
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