I am working with the egrep command and I need to pair with the cut (and ONLY cut) command to change a ":" into a tab. For example change:

Blahblahblah:2000

to:

Blahblahblah 2000

I currently have this, but it turns the ":" into "/t" and not tab:

egrep -e "^[0-9]" *.txt | cut -d ":" --output-delimiter="/t" -f 1- > test.txt

2 Answers

Use this:

egrep -e "^[0-9]" *.txt | cut -d ":" --output-delimiter=$'\t' -f 1- > test.txt

should work in Bash.

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Alternately, you can also use the tr command, if your need is to just replace the delimiter as follows

echo "Blahblahblah:2000" | tr ':' '\t'

You will get the following output

Blahblahblah 2000

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