Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 9.6.2011 18.01, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Why do vim scripting? That's what sed, or awk, or perl, are for. The >> latter two, of course, are much easier to comprehend the logic, too. > > Maybe just because I know vim better than sed, awk or perl, which I > haven't used at all. :-) > > The practical purpose is to turn a tabtext file into CSV > (comma-separated) to be used in a SQL insert statement. Oh. I'm not that good on sed, but awk would be: awk '{gsub(/\t/, ",", $0);print $0;}' tabtextfile. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos