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# 1  
Old 10-05-2012
Issues with sed on SunOS
Why does the below command doesnt work fine on SunOS 5.10

Code:
$ cat t
  |  AK|   |   | |  |  DS   |   |   |   |  tAR |   |   | |  |  FIL   |


$ sed -e 's/^ *//g' -e 's/ *$//g' -e 's/ *| */|/g' t
|AK|||||DS||||  tAR|||||FIL|

##notice before tAR

works fine on Linux OR AIX though

Code:
$ sed -e 's/^ *//g' -e 's/ *$//g' -e 's/ *| */|/g' t
|AK|||||DS||||tAR|||||FIL|

# 2  
Old 10-05-2012
How about this way:

Code:
cat file

  |  AK|   |   | |  |  DS   |   |   |   |  tAR |   |   | |  |  FIL   |


sed 's/[^\(A-Za-z\|)]//g' file

|AK|||||DS||||tAR|||||FIL|

# 3  
Old 10-05-2012
try this...
Code:
sed 's/[ \t]\+//g' file

# 4  
Old 10-05-2012
Have you tested before posting?
Code:
$ sed 's/[ \t]\+//g' t
  |  AK|   |   | |  |  DS   |   |   |   |  tAR |   |   | |  |  FIL   |

... ( on a Solaris10...)
# 5  
Old 10-05-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by vbe
Have you tested before posting?
Code:
$ sed 's/[ \t]\+//g' t
  |  AK|   |   | |  |  DS   |   |   |   |  tAR |   |   | |  |  FIL   |

... ( on a Solaris10...)
ohh.. Sorry for this... i don't have Solaris...Smilie

i thought that it should work.. bad luck...Smilie
# 6  
Old 10-05-2012
thanks for the replies,but my concern here is why doesnt that work fine on SunOS 5.10
# 7  
Old 10-05-2012
@PAMU:
It doesnt work on HP-Ux or AIX either... You must remember before replying that linux IS NOT unix... you will find that what you can do (fancy) under linux has fewer chances to work on true UNIX like
Code:
*/5 * * * * /<path>/some-batch

in cron, you will find the same for tar, awk etc...
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