Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I figured to get all thew annoying tab characters out of a file, all I > needed to do was > > cat filename|sed -e 's/\t//g' >newfile > > but this just strips out the letter "t"
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sed -e 's/^V^I//g' filename > newfile
where ^V^I is Control-V, Control-I (or Control-V, Tab).
Alernatively, the tr command is closer to what you want:
tr -d '\t' < filename > newfile
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