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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert a special character $ in place of extra spaces Post 302427694 by danmero on Monday 7th of June 2010 02:20:14 PM
Old 06-07-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by pseudocoder
Yeah, right ^^ or
Code:
sed 's/   */$/g;s/10 /10$/' file

What about next year Smilie
 

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