I just OOo for this. Here is a link on how I do it. 2 steps and I'm done:
http://www.openofficetips.com/blog/archives/2004/10/importing_tabul.html Ed Robert Citek wrote: > Does anyone know of a tool or shell script for viewing tab-delimited > files? > > I'd like to be able to view tab-delimited files with the columns > aligned. I wrote a one-line perl script for this and put it into an > alias: > > alias cat.tab='perl -lane '\''@F=split("\t", $_,-1) ; $foo="| %15.40s > "x($#F +1) . "|\n"; printf($foo, @F)'\'' ' > > which allows me to do something like this: > > ls -la | tr -s ' ' '\t' | cat.tab | less -S# 10 > > Although it mostly works, I was wondering if there was anything a bit > cleaner. > > Googling for linux+viewing+tab-delimited+files wasn't very fruitful. > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > -- Ed Howland WDT Solutions, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (314) 962-0766 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
