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+author: einar
+comments: true
+date: 2007-05-24 18:16:18+00:00
+layout: post
+slug: tab2dokuwiki
+title: tab2dokuwiki
+wordpress_id: 251
+categories:
+- General
+- Linux
+---
+
+Today I made a simple sed script that converts a tab-delimited text file to a format that can be pasted into a [DokuWiki](http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki) wiki. [There is  a plugin](http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:csv) that permits to read CSV files directly, however:
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+
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+  * It doesn't support tab-delimited text files;
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+  * It's incompatible with some plugins (one being [DokuTexit](http://danjer.doudouke.org/tech/dokutexit), which I need).
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+
+Hence the need for this script. To use it, just copy and paste the code (see below) into a new file, make it executable (chmod +x) and then invoke it with
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+[code lang="bash"]
+tab2wiki inputfile
+[/code]
+
+Note that it outputs the result on stdout, so you'll need to redirect it if you want to save.
+
+Without further ado, here's the script (syntax may be off regarding colors):
+
+[code lang='c']
+#!/bin/sed -f
+# tab2wiki - converts any tab-delimited file into a DokuWiki table
+# First line is treated as header (^)
+{
+s/\t/|  /g
+s/$/  |/g
+s/^/|  /g
+s/|  /  |  /g
+1s/|/\^/g
+s/^\s\s//g
+}
+[/code]
+  *[CSV]: Comma Separated Values