File: dessv.awk
   1 #!/usr/bin/awk -f
   2 
   3 # The MIT License (MIT)
   4 #
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  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 }