Unix Shell Programming - Re: substituting space with a pipe in a text file

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Re: substituting space with a pipe in a text file

Alexis Huxley

2004-12-30, 8:57 am

> AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE 123
> ADSSD SFDS ADSF FDDSF FDSFS
>
> I want to replace the spaces in the input text file with a pipe to get
> a resulting file like this
>
> AAA|BBB|CCC|DDD|EEE|123
> ADSSD|SFDS|ADSF|FDDSF|FDSFS

For sed, you want to substitute (s) your 'source' pattern which is at
least one space, or put another way one space followed by any number
of spaces ( *) for your 'target' pattern which is a pipe (|) and
you want do make the substitution multiple times on a line, or, in
sed terminology, "globally" (g).

Alexis

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