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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem using egrep: spaces and newline Post 302336475 by andyu11 on Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 08:38:57 AM
Old 07-22-2009
Thanks, I am working in bash shell scripting - sorry, I should have mentioned it earlier.

So I tried various formats of the suggestion above
Code:
OUT_FILE=$(echo ${OLD_FILE} | tr -s ' ' '^')
OUT_FILE=`$(echo ${OLD_FILE} | tr -s ' ' '^')`
OUT_FILE=$(egrep ' ' $OLD_FILE | tr -s ' ' '^')

These are a few examples of what I tried. But it did not work.

Thanks in advance.

-Andy
 

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