How would I delete white spaces in a specified file?
Also, I'd like to know what command I would use to take something off a regular expression, and put it onto another.
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expression1 <take_off>
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expression2 (put here)
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Any help would be great, thanks! (10 Replies)
hi all...
i have the next question:
i have a flat file with a lot of records (lines). Each record has 10 fields, which are separated by pipe (|). My problem is what sometimes, in the first record, there are white spaces (no values, nothing) in the beginning of the record, like this:
ws ws... (2 Replies)
I have a variable that calls in a string from txt file. Problem is the string comes with an abundance of white spaces trailing it. Is there any easy way to trim the tailing white spaces off at the end? Thanks in advance. (9 Replies)
Hi,
Can anybody suggest me how to combine two strings with two or more white spaces and assign it to a variable?
E.g.
first=HAI
second=HELLO
third="$first $second" # appending strings with more than one white spaces
echo $third
this would print
HAI HELLO
Output appears... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file that has multiple spaces between characters. I want to delete or convert the multiple spaces into a single space. I think this can be done in "sed" but I only know the syntax to delete trailing or leading spaces. Can this be done with "sed" or awk?
I have a file that looks... (6 Replies)
Hi
I tried to extract 19 characters (default) enclosed with in tag from a file using cut command. If the characters comprises of double space, the cut command gives the output with a single spacing.
file 1
<name>Kumar Rajasekaran</name>
cut -c7-26 "file1"
the out put i received is ... (48 Replies)
Hi,
I am having problem in deleting the leading spaces:-
cat x.csv
baseball,NULL,8798765,Most played
baseball,NULL,8928192,Most played
baseball,NULL,5678945,Most played
cricket,NOTNULL,125782,Usually played
cricket,NOTNULL,678921,Usually played
$ nawk 'BEGIN{FS=","}!a... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file that contains whitespaces with spaces and spaces and tabs on each line and am wanting to remove the whitespaces. My version of sed is one that does not recognize \t etc.
The sed and awk one-liners below that I found via Google both does not work.
So my next best... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pclock
PCLOCK(1) General Commands Manual PCLOCK(1)NAME
pclock - pixmap clock
SYNOPSIS
pclock [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the pclock command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
pclock is a program that places a small analog clock program on the desktop of X. It was designed to run under the WindowMaker window man-
ager. It uses any 64x64 pixmap as a background.
OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-') and short optoins starting with one
dash. A summary of options is included below.
-B PIXMAP, --background=PIXMAP
Use the given pixmap as the clock background (size must be 64x64).
-H COLOR, --hands-color=COLOR
Draw the hands (hour, minute and second) in the specified color.
-S COLOR, --second-hand-color
Draw the second hand in the specified color
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
--hour-hand-length=INT
Draw the hour hand with the specified length of INT.
--minute-hand-length=INT
Draw the minute hand with the specified length of INT.
--second-hand-length=INT
Draw the second hand with the specified length of INT.
--second-hand-width=INT
Draw the minute hand with the specified width of INT.
-s, --second-hand
Don't display the second hand.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
-w, --withdrawn
Don't start up in a withdrawn (iconic) state.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). The soft-
ware is copyrighted (c) 1998 by and released under the GPL v2.
Author: Alexander Kourakos <Alexander@Kourakos.com>
Web: http://www.kourakos.com/~awk/pclock/
PCLOCK(1)