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Sowser · #1 04-13-2007

I have a file containing the following line:

dn: employeeNumber=xxxxxxx, c=us, ou=people, o=xxx.com

After the first comma, there are 2 spaces, i want to get rid of them.

After the 2nd and 3rd comma, there is one space, i want to get rid them also.

All in all, i would like the line to look like this

dn: employeeNumber=xxxxxxx,c=us,ou=people,o=xxx.com

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

-S

reborg · #2 04-13-2007

editing the file in place:

Code:

perl -pi -e 's/, +/,/g' file

ghostdog74 · #3 04-13-2007

sed:

Code:

sed -i 's/, \{1,\}/,/g' file

matrixmadhan · #4 04-17-2007

Code:

sed 's/, */,/g' filename

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