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Originally Posted by zaxxon Not depending on the tab, but any kind of space/blank/tab: Code: sed '/^Message Text/ { s/[[:space:]]\{2,\}/ /g }' Had also problems testing with "+".

Thanks a million zaxxon, your code works as charm.

These are some more options, I got from others. May be helpful to you or others.

Code:

awk -F'Message text:' '{ gsub(/ +/, " ", $2); print $1 "Message text:" $2; }'

# awk -F"Message Text :" '{print $1}' infile > left
# sed -i 's/$/Message Text :/' left
# awk -F"Message Text :" '{print $2}' infile > right
# sed -i 's/  */ /g' right
# paste -d' ' left right > outfile