tab-delimited to csv

[Adam Vande More]

John Almberg wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a way to convert a tab-delimited file to csv using 
> standard unix utilities? I could whip up a Ruby script to do it, but I 
> hate to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Thanks: John
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if you just dealing with a few files, you could use thing like vi or and 
editor w/ regex capbilites to search and replace tabs w/ comma's.

perl -pe ’s/\t/,/g’ table.tsv > table.csv