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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace with spaces Post 302509687 by joeyg on Thursday 31st of March 2011 12:37:46 PM
Old 03-31-2011
tr command?
Code:
$ echo @ABC123DEF#
@ABC123DEF#

$ echo @ABC123DEF# | tr "[:alnum:]" " "
@         #

 

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obm-moz(1)							 Openbox Pipe Menu							obm-moz(1)

NAME

       obm-moz - a pipe-menu for openbox

SYNTAX

       obm-moz [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Obm-moz is a pipe menu for openbox.  It translates any mozilla-compatible bookmarks into an openbox menu.  If no arguments are given, it'll
       try to find your bookmarks.  A bookmarks folder can be passed as an argument, it'll try to find it and build the menu out of that folder.

       More information about pipe-menus can be found on http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Openbox:Pipemenus

OPTIONS

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		 Show this help message and exit

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		 Look for Firefox bookmarks

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		 Specify the path to the bookmarks.html file

       -r ROOT, --root=ROOT
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