Write a bash script named stripTabs. The first argument to the script should be

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Write a bash script named stripTabs. The first argument to the script should be the replacement string

for any tab found in a file. The remaining arguments, if any, are files. The script should loop over the

files passed as arguments, and for each file, replace every tab character with the desired replacement string.

If the file does not contain any tabs, then the file should not be changed; otherwise, a message should be

displayed, indicating that the tabs were removed from the file. For example:

[user]$ cat foo.txt bar.txt

foo has no tabs

bar has many tabs

[user]$ stripTabs "- T >" foo.txt bar.txt

Removed tabs from bar.txt

[user]$ cat foo.txt bar.txt

foo has no tabs

bar- T >has- T >- T >many- T >- T >- T >tabs

[user]$

You may assume that the replacement string does not contain any tab characters. Your script may invoke

sed and awk if needed

Explanation / Answer

CODE

#!/bin/bash
# Relacing Tab character with some name in a File

i=1;
renameText="$1"
for value in $@   #loop all the command line arguments
do
if [ $i == 1 ];then #skip first argument because its a rename Text
((i++))
continue
fi

if [ -e $value ];then              #check file exist or not
   if grep -q "$value"; then        #checking if file contains Tab
     sed -i -e 's/[ ]/'$renameText'/g' $value   #Relacing Tab character
     echo "removed Tabs in $value"
   fi   
else
    echo "$value File Not Exist"   #file not Exist
fi
done

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