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Remove spaces between charc and replace it with ','.
Hi,

Below is my output file: (The below line has multiple spaces bet charc and I want to replace spaces with "," only for the first line)

NYCCMS97KJ931 01-JUN-08 1214957



I want this to be:

NYCCMS97KJ931, 01-JUN-08, 1214957


Thanks in advance.
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Code:
sed "1s/ /, /g" input_file.txt
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This is showing my output like:

NYCCMS97KJ931, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 01-JUN-08, , , , 1214957


I just want to replace all the spaces with one ",".

Thanks.
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Code:
sed "1s/  */, /g" input_file.txt
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Code:
tr ' ' ','
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sed 's/ /,/g'
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awk '{gsub(" ",",")}1'
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Thanks it worked.
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