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csh script for deleting extra spaces in text file

I am new to scripting and I needed to know if there would be an easy way to delete extra spaces in a text file. I have a file with three rows with 22 numbers each, but there is extra spaces between the numbers when it gets output by this program AFNI that I am using. What script would help delete the extra spaces so that there is only one space between numbers? The thing is, the numbers aren't all evenly spaced in the rows....

Thanks in advance...

Megan

Below is an example of what I have, and what I would like....

I have:
0 0 0.999967 6.99001e-06 -0.0311094 0.854128 0.836092 0.834233 -0.85582 0.823927 0.550543 0.465525 0.515718 0.392239 -0.479025 -0.391751 -0.513501 -0.467562 -0.552394 -0.110216 0.110064 0.0316397
0 0 -0.00581784 -0.963206 0.608888 0.520062 0.177423 -0.428004 0.439036 0.162573 0.612435 0.883944 0.704232 0.291954 0.247972 0.710596 0.857074 0.726207 0.217247 -0.0147384 0.52374 0.936388
0 0 -0.00566925 0.268765 -0.792646 0.000969838 -0.519105 -0.347661 -0.273532 0.542876 0.567297 0.0439296 -0.487947 -0.872302 0.842048 0.584452 0.0417219 -0.503993 -0.804776 -0.993798 0.844738 0.349539

I'd like:
0 0 0.999967 6.99001e-06 -0.0311094 0.854128 0.836092 0.834233 -0.85582 0.823927 0.550543 0.465525 0.515718 0.392239 -0.479025 -0.391751 -0.513501 -0.467562 -0.552394 -0.110216 0.110064 0.0316397
0 0 -0.00581784 -0.963206 0.608888 0.520062 0.177423 -0.428004 0.439036 0.162573 0.612435 0.883944 0.704232 0.291954 0.247972 0.710596 0.857074 0.726207 0.217247 -0.0147384 0.52374 0.936388
0 0 -0.00566925 0.268765 -0.792646 0.000969838 -0.519105 -0.347661 -0.273532 0.542876 0.567297 0.0439296 -0.487947 -0.872302 0.842048 0.584452 0.0417219 -0.503993 -0.804776 -0.993798 0.844738 0.349539

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EXMENEN(1)						      General Commands Manual							EXMENEN(1)

NAME

       exmenen, exmendis - enable or disable extra menus for GNOME, KDE and other XDG menu-spec compliant desktops

SYNOPSIS

       exmenen (--system | --local) [ module ]

       exmendis (--system | --local) [ module ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the exmenen and exmendis commands.

       exmenen	is  a  script  that enables the specified extra applications menu on either a system, or per-user basis.  It does this by creating
       symlinks within /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/ (system wide),  or  ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/menus/applications-merged/  (per-user).  If  the
       XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is unset, its default is taken to be ${HOME}/.config .

       Likewise,  exmendis  disables  an extra applications menu by removing those symlinks.  It is not an error to enable a menu which is already
       enabled, or to disable one which is already disabled.

EXAMPLES

	      exmendis --system electronics
	      exmenen --system electronics

       Disables the system wide extra electronics menu, enables it for the current user.

FILES

       /usr/share/extra-xdg-menus
	      Directory with .menu files defining the available extra modules.

       /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged
	      Directory with links to the files in extra-xdg-menus for system-wide enabled extra menus.

       ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/menus/applications-merged
	      Directory with links to the files in extra-xdg-menus for per-user enabled extra menus. If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is  unset,  the  directory
	      used will be ${HOME}/.config/menus/applications-merged

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by Peter Clifton <pcjc2@cam.ac.uk> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, as it is a Debian-specific script
       with the package.

       exmenen, exmendis and this manpage were derived from scripts and documentation written by Daniel Stone for the apache2 Debian package.

								  13 January 2008							EXMENEN(1)

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