how to include field separator if there are blank fields? - Shell Programming and Scripting

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 07-12-2005

From what you are saying and given your output

num1f;;;;num5f

Code:

sed -e 's/[ ][ ]*/;/g'

I tried using
sed -e 's/ */;/g'
but it will take consecutive blank fields as one blank field. Can anyone help?

So, shouldnt it take the consecutive blank fields and convert it to ; ?

What's the output you are getting with your sed script ?

Do you mean, for each space encountered, you want to replace it with a ;

Try this

Code:

tr '[:space]' ';' < inputfile

Vino