Question for Unix bods

[cojak]

You sound like someone who gets frustrated at the fact you never know the answers to technical questions. IT is your gremlin

You're an agent and I claim my £5

You're the one asking the question, matey...

[wendigo100]

Or me. I'm not sure who that was aimed at.

Probably both of us. That's a tenner we owe him then.

[wendigo100]

You sound like someone who gets frustrated at the fact you never know the answers to technical questions. IT is your gremlin

You're an agent and I claim my £5

He's got you banged to rights, cojak!

[DGK]

You sound like someone who gets frustrated at the fact you never know the answers to technical questions. IT is your gremlin

You're an agent and I claim my £5

[cojak]

Why, would Mensa know the difference between the terms 'General' and 'Technical'?

[DGK]

yes, the pattern is that they both contain 4 letters, I'd try the MENSA test if I were you.

Chelsea @ home, who'd have thought it eh?

[wendigo100]

thanks buddy, I'll have a drink in Hull for you tonight.

Up the Tigers.

Unix ... Hull ... I see a pattern here!

[DBA_bloke]

Or, use vi.

vi fileName
Position cursor to start of the file.
Then...
Semicolon percent-symbol lowercase-s forward-slash spacebar forward-slash hit-Tab-key forward-slash lowercase-g
Will look something like this in vi
:%s/ /^I/g

[DGK]

thanks buddy, I'll have a drink in Hull for you tonight.

Up the Tigers.

[portseven]

I think 'awk' is the command you want, something like

awk -F" " '{OFS="\t"}{print $1,$2,$3,$4,$5}' sumfile

Do a 'man awk' and have a bugger about

[DGK]

Morning all. I'm looking for a command that will convert a space-delimeted log file into a tab-delimeted file. TIA