What sed command (if sed is the right command) can remove ALL white space from my file.
To be pedantic, sed cannot remove all white space from a file. Newline characters qualify as white space and sed output will always include at least one.
Pedantic mode off.
The following tr command will delete whitespace. Perhaps one will suit your needs.
Spaces only:
Spaces and tabs:
All whitespace (including but not limited to spaces, tabs, newlines, carriage returns, form feeds, vertical tabs):
Hi All;
Having a problem with a file..
the file contains the following data... (a snapshot)
1331F9E9DB7C2BB80EAEDE3A8F043B94,AL7 1DZ,M,50
186FDF93E1303DBA217279EC3671EA91,NG5 1JU,M,24
3783FFAF602015056A8CD21104B1AAAF,CH42 4NQ,M,17
It has 3 columns sepreated by a ,
the second column... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I know there's a really simple answer to this but I just can't think of it :)
I'm processing a file which has lines containing white space i.e.
And I want to perform some awk on each line but when I do the following:
for US in $( cat /tmp/unique-strings.tmp | sed 's/\/\\]/g'... (6 Replies)
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... (1 Reply)
Im trying to add 5 blank spaces to the end of each line in a file in a sed script. I can figure out who o put the spaces pretty much anywhere else but at the end.
thanks
Karl (7 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to match white space in patterns through - Grep
I tried ] & ] but none of them worked.
Then I tried Perl extension '\s' and it worked.
So just wanted to know if ] & ] are still supported or have they become deprecated.
However they have been mentioned in the... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a file with contents as below
group1 = aaaaa, bbbbb, ccccc, aaa
group2=aaa, bbbbb, ccccc, aaaaa
group3 = bbbbb, aaa, ccccc, aaaaa
group4 = bbbbb, aaa,ccccc, aaaaa
I want to search for "aaa" and the output should be as below
group1 = aaaaa, bbbbb, ccccc
group2= bbbbb, ccccc,... (3 Replies)
our user creates a text file with a white space on the filename. this same file is transfered to unix via automation tool. i have a korn shell script that reads these files on a input directory and connects to oracle database to run the oracle procedures which will load the data from each of the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a very big file 25GB with information present in it like
$ head ind_stats
update index statistics pfirm001.dbo.Office using 200 values
go
... (11 Replies)
Hi
How to remove white space from this input:|blue | 1|
|green| 4|
|black| 2|
I like to search for green and get 4not 4
How to modify this to work correct:awk -F"|" '/green/ {print $3} (7 Replies)
hi guys
how can i add spacein file name with sed if strings have no space around dash
input
19-20
( 18-19 )
ABC-EFG
output after add white space
19 - 20
(18 - 19 )
ABC - EFG
thx in advance (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mhs
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LEARN ABOUT OSX
col
COL(1) BSD General Commands Manual COL(1)NAME
col -- filter reverse line feeds from input
SYNOPSIS
col [-bfhpx] [-l num]
DESCRIPTION
The col utility filters out reverse (and half reverse) line feeds so that the output is in the correct order with only forward and half for-
ward line feeds, and replaces white-space characters with tabs where possible. This can be useful in processing the output of nroff(1) and
tbl(1).
The col utility reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output.
The options are as follows:
-b Do not output any backspaces, printing only the last character written to each column position.
-f Forward half line feeds are permitted (``fine'' mode). Normally characters printed on a half line boundary are printed on the fol-
lowing line.
-h Do not output multiple spaces instead of tabs (default).
-l num Buffer at least num lines in memory. By default, 128 lines are buffered.
-p Force unknown control sequences to be passed through unchanged. Normally, col will filter out any control sequences from the input
other than those recognized and interpreted by itself, which are listed below.
-x Output multiple spaces instead of tabs.
The control sequences for carriage motion that col understands and their decimal values are listed in the following table:
ESC-7 reverse line feed (escape then 7)
ESC-8 half reverse line feed (escape then 8)
ESC-9 half forward line feed (escape then 9)
backspace moves back one column (8); ignored in the first column
carriage return (13)
newline forward line feed (10); also does carriage return
shift in shift to normal character set (15)
shift out shift to alternate character set (14)
space moves forward one column (32)
tab moves forward to next tab stop (9)
vertical tab reverse line feed (11)
All unrecognized control characters and escape sequences are discarded.
The col utility keeps track of the character set as characters are read and makes sure the character set is correct when they are output.
If the input attempts to back up to the last flushed line, col will display a warning message.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of col as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The col utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO colcrt(1), expand(1), nroff(1), tbl(1)STANDARDS
The col utility conforms to Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification (``SUSv2'').
HISTORY
A col command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
BSD August 4, 2004 BSD