Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Leen de Braal:
> First is to replace the first (only the first) space in the line with a
> <TAB>.
> After that I want to delete a given number of characters that always begin
> with the same sequence, but may have different contents.
sed 's/^ /\t/;s/beginning.\{n\}//'
works for me, where "beginning" ist the beginning sequence and n is the given
number of characters minus the length of "beginning".
> I used sed 's/^ /\t/' txtfile, but I do not get a tab.
That works for me.
> Besides, this might
> do more then just the first space, I guess.
No, 's/ /\t/g' would do so.
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