Re: file where sep decimals is comma

[Marco Atzeri]

On 9/24/2011 2:11 AM, Francesco Potortì wrote:
> > > > 1984;4249,6
> > >
> > > sed -e "s/,/./" -e "s/;/,/" old_file>  new_file
> >
> > sed 's/,/./; s/;/,/' old>  new
> >
> > does the trick with less writing, although it does look like my cat
> > danced on the keyboard.
>
> Well, if we're at less writing, this one is shorter :)
>
> tr ',;' .,<o>n

this is fine :-) on Unix-like

but sometime I needed such operation on windows,
and sed for MS is easy available.

Regards
Marco

PS) No idea of the system used by the original requestor.