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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to replace specific space in files ? Post 302292431 by rikxik on Friday 27th of February 2009 11:03:12 PM
Old 02-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

You don't need -e:

Code:
sed '
s/ /,/
s/ /,/'  FILE



Hmm.. never thought like that but makes perfect sense.

Quote:
Or even:

Code:
sed 's/\([^ ]*\) \([^ ]*\) /\1,\2,/' FILE

This was the approach I took first... but repeatedly got "command garbled" so gave up. Maybe my regexs weren't in good shape Smilie
 

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Speech(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 Speech(3)

NAME
Mac::Speech - Provide interface to PlainTalk (Speech Manager) SYNOPSIS
use Mac::Speech; DESCRIPTION
Access to Inside Macintosh is essential for proper use of these functions. Explanations of terms, processes and procedures are provided there. Any attempt to use these functions without guidance can cause severe errors in your machine, including corruption of data. You have been warned. Variables %Voice The %Voice hash will return the index to the first voice whose name matches the given text. Constants kTextToSpeechSynthType kTextToSpeechVoiceType kTextToSpeechVoiceFileType kTextToSpeechVoiceBundleType Speech Types. kNoEndingProsody kNoSpeechInterrupt kPreflightThenPause Synthesizer flags. kImmediate kEndOfWord kEndOfSentence Where to stop. kNeuter kMale kFemale Genders. Types VoiceDescription Voice Description Record. long length size of structure--set by application VoiceSpec voice voice synthesizer and ID info long version version number of voice Str63 name name of voice Str255 comment text information about voice short gender neuter, male, or female short age approximate age in years short script script code of text voice can process short language language code of voice output short region region code of voice output VoiceSpec Voice Specification Record. OSType creator ID of required synthesizer OSType id ID of voice on the synthesizer Functions SpeechManagerVersion CountVoices GetIndVoice INDEX GetVoiceDescription VOICE NewSpeechChannel VOICE DisposeSpeechChannel CHAN SpeakString S SpeakText CHAN, TEXT SpeakBuffer CHAN, TEXT, CONTROLFLAGS StopSpeech CHAN StopSpeechAt CHAN, WHERETOSTOP PauseSpeechAt CHAN, WHERETOPAUSE ContinueSpeech CHAN SpeechBusy SpeechBusySystemWide SetSpeechRate CHAN, RATE GetSpeechRate CHAN SetSpeechPitch CHAN, PITCH GetSpeechPitch CHAN TextToPhonemes CHAN, TEXT SpeechToFile CHAN, PATH Set speech channel CHAN to output to file PATH. AUTHOR
Written by Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeracher@mac.com>. Currently maintained by Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>. perl v5.18.2 2017-10-06 Speech(3)
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