On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:52:49 sc wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:04:37 Adrian Johnson wrote:
> > I have 2 GB file tab-delim file. I want to fill the empty
> > columns spaces with 0. If I use Vim , vim hangs due to
> > memory.
> >
> > Is there a simple awk magic.
>
> something like
>
> awk 's/ /0/g' yourfile > yournewfile
er -- what i actually meant here was
sed 's/ /0/g' yourfile > yournewfile
sorry...i need coffee
>
> should work
>
> > also , I could not find any awk mailing list. do you know if
> > there is a awk help mailing list.
>
> usenet is your friend -- fire up knode and subscribe to
> comp.lang.awk -- there are some very talented and friendly ppl
> that frequent that newsgroup
>
> > I would like to do following:
> >
> > $ cat myfile | awk ''''do some magic' > my_new_file.
>
> the magic will probably turn out to be very similar to what
> you were attempting in vim -- the substitute command is the
> same
>
> hth,
>
> sc
>
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