File: dessv.awk 1 #!/usr/bin/awk -f 2 3 # The MIT License (MIT) 4 # 5 # Copyright © 2020-2025 pacman64 6 # 7 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy 8 # of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal 9 # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights 10 # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell 11 # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 12 # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: 13 # 14 # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 15 # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. 16 # 17 # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 18 # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 19 # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 20 # AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 21 # LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 22 # OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 23 # SOFTWARE. 24 25 26 # dessv [filepaths...] 27 # 28 # Convert lines of Space(s)-Separated Values (SSV) into lines of Tab-Separated 29 # Values (TSV). 30 31 32 # ignore leading UTF-8 BOMs on the first line of each input, when present 33 FNR == 1 { gsub(/^\xef\xbb\xbf/, "") } 34 35 # ignore trailing carriage-returns before emitting lines; keep flushing 36 # output-buffer for each line, in case input lines come in `stutters`, 37 # as when piping live activity logs, for example 38 { 39 gsub(/\r$/, "") 40 for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) { 41 if (i > 1) printf "\t" 42 printf "%s", $i 43 } 44 printf "\n"; fflush() 45 }