Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

What sed command (if sed is the right command) can remove ALL white space from my file. I have a csv, except I want to remove all white space between commas and characters.

My idea (without testing)
sed 's/ //g'

Is there a better way?

Code:

$ ruby -pne 'gsub(/\s+,\s+/,",")' file

Code:

awk '$1=$1' infile

Code:

sed 's/[ \t]//g'

To be pedantic, sed cannot remove all white space from a file. Newline characters qualify as white space and sed output will always include at least one.

Pedantic mode off.

The following tr command will delete whitespace. Perhaps one will suit your needs.

Spaces only:

Code:

tr -d ' '

Spaces and tabs:

Code:

tr -d ' \t'

All whitespace (including but not limited to spaces, tabs, newlines, carriage returns, form feeds, vertical tabs):

Code:

tr -d '[:space:]'

thank goodness i find this page !

please how to remove the white space and replace with _ example file name backup.avi

and file name [2012] backup.avi

these white spaces and [] are annoying how would i run the command

thank you

tell us your sample file name, and your expect updated file name.