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Old 10-10-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Something is not right.....

Code:
sed 's/Message Text :  /Message Text : /g'

Note: your example has exactly this text:
'Message Text :'

-- that is what I am using for a pattern. Instead of just running the sed on your file make sure the pattern matches what is in the first. Plus are you SURE the white space is not the tab characters? Use this command to see

Code:
od -c myfile