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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SED with White Space Post 302293173 by sandeep_1105 on Monday 2nd of March 2009 03:17:19 PM
Old 03-02-2009
SED with White Space
Dear Members,

Suppose i have a variable test which stores a string as below:

test='John drives+++++++++a+++++car'

now i want to use sed on the above variable and replace + with a white space, so that i get

echo $test should give me

'john drives a car'

Between "drives" and "a" i need 9 white spaces and between "a" and "car" i need 5 white spaces since i have 9 and 5 positive signs before.

How can i do this?
 

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array-info

array-info(1)															     array-info(1)

NAME

       array-info - check the status of a HP (Compaq) SmartArray controller

SYNOPSIS

       array-info -d array_device_path [-a|-l|-A|-c|-s|-L|-h]

DESCRIPTION

       Array-info is a command line tool to retrieve informations and logical drives status from several RAID controllers (currently HP Compaq IDA
       and CISS and MD).  It displays informations about the firmware version, Rom revision, number of physical and logical  drives  on  the  con-
       troller, aswell as the fault tolerance, size, number of physical disks and status for each logical drive.

OPTIONS

       --device | -d
	      Path to array device, e.g. /dev/ida/c0d0 or /dev/cciss/c0d1

       --all-drives | -a
	      Show informations about all drives

       --logical drive | -l
	      Show informations about selected logical drive

       --show-ctrl | -c
	      Show informations about controller

       --show-logical | -L
	      Show informations about logical drives

       --show-physical | -p
	      Show physical device informations

       --show-status | -s
	      Show status of logical drives

       --show-all | -A
	      Show all informations

       --version | -V
	      Show version

       -h     Show help about options

COPYRIGHT

       This  manual page was written by Raphael Pinson <<raphink@ubuntu.com>>.	Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
       ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

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