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Old 09-22-2015
How about answering my questions?
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Old 09-22-2015
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Originally Posted by Sandeep Pattnai
As per your suggestion, I have changed the tr -d with the "sed" to remove spaces.
I did not suggest that.

That's going to be the same or worse.

Try a shell builtin.
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Old 09-22-2015
Code:
$ VAR="value with spaces"
$ echo ${VAR// }

valuewithspaces

$

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