anyway, I'm using tr to encrypt with rot-13:
it works, but it removes any consecutive spaces so that there is just one space between words. I've had this problem before while using sed to delete lines of text in a file (it worked but removed consecutive spaces).
how to fix it?
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-10-2011 at 08:05 AM..
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Hello,
I have the following to remove spaces from beginning and end of a string.
infile=`echo "$infilename" | sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//`
How do I modify the above code to remove spaces from beginning, end and in the middle of the string also.
ex:
... (4 Replies)
Hello and thx for reading this
I'm using sed to remove only the leading spaces in a file
bash-280R# cat foofile
some text
some text
some text
some text
some text
bash-280R#
bash-280R# sed 's/^ *//' foofile > foofile.use
bash-280R# cat foofile.use
some text
some text
some text... (6 Replies)
seems easy but havent found in other posts...
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I have a comma seperated file.
I wanna remove the spaces from column 2. I mean i don't wanna remove the spaces those are presnt in column 1.
ex:
emp name, emp no, salary
abc k, abc 11, 1000 00
bhk s, bhk 22, 2000 00
the output should be:
emp name, emp no, salary
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pl provide me a awk/sed solution.
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I need to remove spaces at the end of each line in a *.txt file. it looks like this
word 1
word 2
.
.
.
word n
i found some sed commands but any of them didnt work so far
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