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large text file change



On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 08:06 -0700, Eric C wrote:
> i'm playing around with a couple of large txt files ~650M.  for
> separating data they use "~" instead of ",". 
> 
> what's an easy way to change the delimiters so i can import the data
> into openoffice base?


sed -e s/~/,/g tilde.txt > comma.txt

--Larry






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