Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all,
i have a problem.
please help me to remove the white spaces and tabs betweeen line.
i.e.,
file1 contains some text..
text starts_hdsffdsd
sdfsddssdds********
sdfsdsd***********
sdfsdsdfsdsdfsdsds***
****fsd_test_ends
one or 2 blank lines

(* indicates white spaces or tabs)

please help me to remove all blank line and white spaces.
my final file should contain entire text in a single line. like as follows.

text starts_hdsffdsdsdfsddssddssdfsdsdsdfsdsdfsdsdfsdsdssdfsd_test_ends

waitng for ur reply.

Kumar

Hi,

Try this command

Code:

  

grep -v '^$' remove_wp.txt | sed -e 's/ //g' -e 's/    //g' | sed 'N;N;s/\n//g'

-Mons

Code:

tr -d '\n\t ' < kumar.txt

kumar.txt contains the tab, white spaces and new line delimited lines.

vino

hai ,
use regexp u can remove the unnecessary blank space

Dear Friends,
thanks for ur replis,

it will be a great help if u solve the following problem

I am using csplit to split the files,
i.e.,
csplit -f filetype_ -n 3 filename '/regexpn/' {5}
which will split file "filename" into 5 subfiles
filetype_000
filetype_001
filetype_002
filetype_003
filetype_004

but if I run the csplit commad again it will rewrite the previous subfiles.
What I need is to continue with existing files
i.e., if I run the csplit command,
it should continue to split files and produce follwoing subfiles
filetype_005
filetype_006
filetype_007
filetype_008
filetype_009

do not affecting
filetype_000
filetype_001
filetype_002
filetype_003
filetype_004

and finally I should have
filetype_000
filetype_001
filetype_002
filetype_003
filetype_004
filetype_005
filetype_006
filetype_007
filetype_008
filetype_009


please tell me how do I proceed.


Thanks in advance,
Kumar

Kumar,

Dont duplicate your posts. Here is the original post - csplit problem....please help me