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From: ekkardgerlach <egerlach@aiai.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: convert text mit tab stops to table
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 10:50:47 +0200
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thx to all!
from suse-mailinglist I got the best solution: "column" included in
util-linux:

cat lab2.txt  | tr "\t" ";" | column -t -s ";"

change tab to ; because column doesn't like tabs, then column. Great!

Ekkard