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Re: Editing a piped in stream?

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On Jul 06, 2018 um 11:17:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Subject line is poorly phrased.
> While working on a problem {solved by a different approach} I had:
>    ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ | cut -f 10,12 -d ' ' data.txt
> I would then manually edit data.txt by replacing the space character between
> the two fields with a tab.
> 
> I suspect I should be able to do:
>    ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ | cut -f 10,12 -d ' ' | *something* >
> prettydata.txt
> 
> I searched for examples/tutorials found that it should be conceptually
> possible. However the examples I found were processing streams I didn't
> understand.

Hello Richard,

one way is to do it with sed:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/|cut -f 10,12 -d ' '|sed 's/ /\t/g'>prettydata.txt

Hth Michael

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Editing a piped in stream? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-06 18:20 +0200
  Re: Editing a piped in stream? Michael Wagner <wagner_m_bremen@web.de> - 2018-07-06 18:50 +0200
    Re: Editing a piped in stream? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-06 20:30 +0200
  Re: Editing a piped in stream? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-07-06 19:10 +0200
  Re: Editing a piped in stream? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-07 04:10 +0200
    Re: Editing a piped in stream? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-07-07 11:00 +0200
      Re: Editing a piped in stream? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-07-07 21:40 +0200
        Re: Editing a piped in stream? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-08 03:40 +0200
          Eureka;/ Re: Editing a piped in stream? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-08 13:00 +0200
        Re: Editing a piped in stream? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-07-08 03:40 +0200
          Re: Editing a piped in stream? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-07-08 07:40 +0200
            Re: Editing a piped in stream? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-07-08 13:20 +0200
              Re: Editing a piped in stream? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-08 15:20 +0200
                Re: Editing a piped in stream? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-08 16:00 +0200
                Re: Editing a piped in stream? John Darrah <xyllyx@gmail.com> - 2018-07-08 18:50 +0200
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                Re: Editing a piped in stream? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-10 14:40 +0200
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