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Help with removal of blank spaces in a file
Post 302519142 by abk07 on Tuesday 3rd of May 2011 06:15:17 AM
05-03-2011
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I don't understand..
But the first tab is intact!
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I can't reproduce the problem either. Only spaces are removed in my test file and it all works beautifully well.
So either it's a version that's different enough (GNU sed v4.2.1 here) or the characters you replace are really just multiple spaces. Try 'hexdump -C textfile' or use the sequence 'ga' in normal mode in vim to get info about the character under your cursor.
So either it's a version that's different enough (GNU sed v4.2.1 here) or the characters you replace are really just multiple spaces. Try 'hexdump -C textfile' or use the sequence 'ga' in normal mode in vim to get info about the character under your cursor.
Hey 'hexdump -C file' helped me!!
Its indeed a tab.. Don't know why it is displaying in that fashion!!
Anyway thank you so much!!
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EXPAND(1) User Commands EXPAND(1) NAME
expand - convert tabs to spaces SYNOPSIS
expand [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -i, --initial do not convert tabs after non blanks -t, --tabs=N have tabs N characters apart, not 8 -t, --tabs=LIST use comma separated list of tab positions The last specified position can be prefixed with '/' to specify a tab size to use after the last explicitly specified tab stop. Also a prefix of '+' can be used to align remaining tab stops relative to the last speci- fied tab stop instead of the first column --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
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