Replacing commas with tabs in KWrite

[Justin Denick]

try sed
sed s/,/\\\t/g foo.bar > foo.tmp && mv foo.tmp foo.bar

On Feb 4, 2008 11:39 AM, Frank Bures <lisfrank at chem.toronto.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to edit a comma delimited database file so that it becomes tab
> delimited.  In OS/2 I just globally searched for ',' and then replaced it
> with ASCII [09] character by entering <Alt-0-9>.
> I cannot do that in KWrite as KWrite does not interpret <Alt> at all
> and just enters "09" in the 'Replace with' field.
> When I try to enter <Tab>, it just takes me to another field.
>
> How do you replace anything with unprintable characters in KWrite?
> (short of using vi of course :-))
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>
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