How to replace space with comma using sed

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I would like to replace the empty space between each and every field with comma delimiter Could someone let me know how can I do this I tried the below command but it doesn t work thanks   My command    s       53 51097 310780 1 56 260 1925 1 68 51282 278770 1 77 46903 281485 1 82 475 2600 1 84 433 3395 1 96 212 1545 1 163 373819 1006375 1 204 36917 117195 1

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On Linux use below to test  it would replace the whitespaces with comma    sed  s  s   g   tmp test txt   head   later you can take the output into the file using below command   sed  s  s   g   tmp test txt  gt   tmp test final txt   PS  test is the file which you want to use

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Inside vim  you want to type when in normal  command  mode     s     g   On the terminal prompt  you can use sed to perform this on a file   sed -i  s      g  input file   Note  the -i option to sed means  in-place edit   as in that it will modify the input file

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If you are talking about sed  this works   sed -e  s     g   lt  a txt   In vim  use same regex to replace   s     g

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I just confirmed that   cat file txt   sed  s  s   g    successfully replaces spaces with commas in Cygwin terminals  mintty 2 9 0   None of the other samples worked for me

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If you want the output on terminal then     sed  s     g  filename txt   But if you want to edit the file itself i e  if you want to replace space with the comma in the file then     sed -i  s     g  filename txt

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I know it s not exactly what you re asking  but  for replacing a comma with a newline  this works great   tr     n   lt  file

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IF your data includes an arbitrary sequence of blank characters  tab  space   and you want to replace each sequence with one comma  use the following   sed  s   t      g  input file   or   sed -r  s    blank       g  input file   If you want to replace sequence of space characters  which includes other characters such as carriage return and backspace  etc  then use the following   sed -r  s    space       g  input file

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Try the following command and it should work out for you   sed  s  s   g  orignalFive csv  gt  editedFinal csv

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