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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting removing spaces in a file Post 10696 by tioray on Monday 19th of November 2001 04:33:47 PM
Old 11-19-2001
Unfortunately in my example I just noticed I can't put spaces in my sample file. Here is how the file that needs to be left end justified looks (I'm using > to represent a space).

space
>>space space
>>>>>space space space
>>>>>>>>space space space space
>>>>space space space space space
 

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msgmap

msgmap(5)							File Formats Manual							 msgmap(5)

NAME

       msgmap - number of entries in the System V IPC message space resource map (OBSOLETE)

DESCRIPTION

       The tunable is obsolete and has been removed.

       This  tunable  specified the size of (number of entries in) the message space resource map that tracks the free space in shared IPC message
       space.  Message space allocation mechanism is changed in the kernel and this tunable is no longer required.

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WARNINGS

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SEE ALSO

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						     Tunable Kernel Parameters							 msgmap(5)
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