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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting tr and sed remove spaces. how to stop this? Post 302495438 by methyl on Thursday 10th of February 2011 08:57:12 AM
Old 02-10-2011
The "echo" issue is the same as in you previous problem.
Unless you have the sed version with the "-i" switch it is inadvisible to write back to the same file.

Code:
cp -p filename filename.sav
sed '/text/,/newtext/ d' filename.sav > filename
# Uncomment when tested
# rm filename.sav

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ASN2XML(1)						     NCBI Tools User's Manual							ASN2XML(1)

NAME

       asn2xml - translate biological data from ASN.1 to XML

SYNOPSIS

       asn2xml [-] [-b F] [-e] [-i filename] [-l filename] [-o filename] [-s]

DESCRIPTION

       asn2xml converts an NCBI Seq-entry or Bioseq-set from ASN.1 format to an isomorphic XML representation.	It differs from asn2asn -x in that
       it converts packed sequence data back into human-readable ASCII text.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -      Print usage message

       -b F   Input asnfile in text mode

       -e     Input is a Seq-entry

       -i filename
	      Read ASN.1 from filename (default is stdin)

       -l filename
	      Log errors to filename (default is stderr)

       -o filename
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       -s     Input is a Seq-submit

AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

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