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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How can i remove spaces in between the fields in a file Post 302090545 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 26th of September 2006 10:57:34 AM
Old 09-26-2006
Code:
tr -d ' ' < oldfile > newfile

 

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aha takes SGR-colored Input and prints W3C conform HTML-Code. aha reads the Input from a file or stdin and writes HTML-Code to stdout. OPTIONS
--help , -h , -? A help like this --black , -b Black Background and white "standard color" --pink , -p Pink Background --iso X , -i X Uses ISO 8859-X instead of utf-8. X must be 1..16 --title X , -t X Gives the html output the title --line-fix , -l Uses a fix for inputs using control sequences to change the cursor position like htop. It's a hot fix, it may not work with any pro- gram like htop. (See EXAMPLE) EXAMPLE
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