[ale] Quick substitution question

[esoteric at denali.atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> I have a large file which has tab delimited information per line.
> 
> Can some blast out a quick vi command to substitute  a pipe | for the tab \t ?
> 
> This does not work.... :%s/\t/|/g

try:

:1,$ s/	/|/g	# where there is a literal tab following the 's/'  this
worked for me.

or

:g/	/s//|/g	# again, just hit the tab key following the 'g/' this also
worked for me.

> 
> I am trying to make this simple for others in my group.  I would prefer not to use perl or awk, etc.  I know they can do it but I am considering those who will follow me here...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> John
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