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To match a tab, you need to include an actual tab in your sed script. &nbsp;To replace it with a newline, you need to include an actual newline, escaped by a '\'.<br />
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So the script would have the following characters:<br />
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&nbsp; 's' '/' TAB '/' '\' NL &nbsp;'\' 'g' NL<br />
&nbsp; 73 &nbsp;2f &nbsp;09 &nbsp;2f &nbsp;5c &nbsp;0a &nbsp;2f &nbsp;67 &nbsp;0a<br />
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To match a tab, you need to include an actual tab in your sed script.  To replace it with a newline, you need to include an actual newline, escaped by a '\'.

So the script would have the following characters:

  's' '/' TAB '/' '\' NL  '\' 'g' NL
  73  2f  09  2f  5c  0a  2f  67  0a




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I do not understand your answer.<br />
it is not right?<br />
<br />
anyway thankytou
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I do not understand your answer.
it is not right?

anyway thankytou

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If you are having problems in entering a tab character from the<br />
shell try &lt;control v&gt; &lt;tab character&gt;. (For eg. bash<br />
does not allow to enter tab character.)
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If you are having problems in entering a tab character from the
shell try <control v> <tab character>. (For eg. bash
does not allow to enter tab character.)

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I just noticed a typo in the original post. &nbsp;It had a '\' instead of '/', although the hex code for the character was correct. &nbsp;It should have been: <br />
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&nbsp; 's' '/' TAB '/' '\' NL &nbsp;'/' 'g' NL <br />
&nbsp; 73 &nbsp;2f &nbsp;09 &nbsp;2f &nbsp;5c &nbsp;0a &nbsp;2f &nbsp;67 &nbsp;0a <br />

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I just noticed a typo in the original post.  It had a '\' instead of '/', although the hex code for the character was correct.  It should have been:

  's' '/' TAB '/' '\' NL  '/' 'g' NL
  73  2f  09  2f  5c  0a  2f  67  0a


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Adjusted points from 50 to 100
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I shoul have seen that too but I am to sleepy<br />
must go to bed &nbsp;anyway thaks for the help and more poing why not!<br />
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thaks<br />

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I shoul have seen that too but I am to sleepy
must go to bed  anyway thaks for the help and more poing why not!

thaks


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How would I if I had a file full of data seaperated by tabs, change this be be seperated <br />
by a newline?<br />
sed s/what is tab/what is newline/g kind of thing?
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How would I if I had a file full of data seaperated by tabs, change this be be seperated 
by a newline?
sed s/what is tab/what is newline/g kind of thing?

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