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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change indentation in scripts Post 302780099 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 13th of March 2013 11:41:46 PM
Old 03-14-2013
I agree that long lines should be avoided, but there is a trivial way to cut the number of leading spaces on every line in a file in half:
Code:
sed 's/^\( *\)\1/\1/'


Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-14-2013 at 12:42 AM.. Reason: Edit tags
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