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Subject: large text file change
From: lgu at pobox.com (Larry Underhill)
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:49:53 -0400
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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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