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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trimming fields for comma or pipe seperated file Post 302314555 by pinnacle on Friday 8th of May 2009 04:09:18 PM
Old 05-08-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
This removes the spaces except the spaces within the double quotes:

Code:
awk -F"\"" '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if(i%2)gsub(" ","",$i)}}1' OFS="\"" file

Regards

Thankyou Franklin52

This was what i was looking for that does triming and not with in double quotes.

Thanks again
 

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LESSECHO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LESSECHO(1)

NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ... DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. -ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character. -cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character. -pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. -dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. -mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar. -nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer. -ex Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars. -fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer. -a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted. SEE ALSO
less(1) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org. Version 394: 03 Dec 2005 LESSECHO(1)
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