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  • Subject: Re: Ascii file from FTP
  • From: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:12:18 -0500 (CDT)



On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Martin Rowe wrote:
> files to streamfiles in various formats using the CPYTOIMPF command. If you 
> get them as .csv files you can use the tr command to convert to your required 
> format along the lines of 
> $ tr ',' '\t' < file.csv > file.tab
> as I just discovered (had to convert a strange tab delimted file to .csv 
> format). Unfortunately I've not (yet) any experience of sed or awk :-( 

If you use this "tr" approach, be careful that none of your databases'
fields contain the ',' character -- because they'd be converted to tabs
as well...



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