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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trim issue Post 302189969 by denn on Monday 28th of April 2008 09:45:17 AM
Old 04-28-2008
agreed, it's very unclear what you're wanting to do..2 things however,
tr is "translate charachters" not trim!
the format you're using is not correct, you don't have double quotes formatted correctly."actually you don't have double-quotes.

Code:
tr -s " "`"  ## 3 quotes, not 4!
you also might want to use the ascii equiv to "`" char
or 
tr -s " " "\`"

 

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