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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help!!! Shell script to parse data file. Post 302239624 by bakunin on Wednesday 24th of September 2008 06:19:56 AM
Old 09-24-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dhruva
One of many ways to remove spaces:
To remove every blank might not be desirable because some values might contain blanks. In a first step i would remove the blanks trailing and leading the delimiter characters:

Code:
sed 's/ *|/|/g;s/| */|/g' file > file.new

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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