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Old 03-11-2010
Network Replace every other space
I'd like a sed command to replace every other space in my file.

File:

0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5

Want:

01 03 02 05

Does anyone have any ideas?
# 2  
Old 03-11-2010
awk '{ print $1 $2, $3 $4, $5 $6} ' olfdile > newfile
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# 3  
Old 03-11-2010
or along the similar lines:
Code:
echo '0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5' | nawk '{for(;++i<=NF;) printf("%s%c", $i, (i%2)?"":(i==NF)?ORS:OFS)}'

# 4  
Old 03-11-2010
Code:
$ echo '0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5' | sed "s/[^ ]$/& /;s/ \([^ ]*\) /\1 /g"
01 03 02 05

# 5  
Old 03-11-2010
Code:
echo '0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5' |awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {printf ((i%2)?FS:S) $i}}'

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# 6  
Old 03-11-2010
And now, time for some Perl... Smilie

Code:
$ 
$ echo "0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5" | perl -ple 's/(\d) (\d)/$1$2/g'
01 03 02 05
$ 
$ echo "0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5" | perl -ple 's/(.) (.)/$1$2/g'
01 03 02 05
$

tyler_durden

Coming to think of it, sed should work with a similar regex as well...

Code:
$ 
$ echo "0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5" | sed 's/\(.\) \(.\)/\1\2/g'
01 03 02 05
$

# 7  
Old 03-11-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by durden_tyler
And now, time for some Perl... Smilie

Code:
$ 
$ echo "0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5" | perl -ple 's/(\d) (\d)/$1$2/g'
01 03 02 05
$ 
$ echo "0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5" | perl -ple 's/(.) (.)/$1$2/g'
01 03 02 05
$

tyler_durden

Coming to think of it, sed should work with a similar regex as well...

Code:
$ 
$ echo "0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5" | sed 's/\(.\) \(.\)/\1\2/g'
01 03 02 05
$

If the input has more than one digit
Code:
$  echo '0 1 0 3 0 2 0 5' | sed "s/\([^ ]\{1,\}\) \([^ ]\{1,\}\)/\1\2/g"
01 03 02 05
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